Final test Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is ......

• a. a discipline that yokes society with linguistics.

• b. a discipline that yokes sociology with linguistics.

• c. a discipline that yokes socio with linguistics.

Every society has linguistic codes .......

• a. acceptable for communication and interaction.

• b. acceptable for communication and sociology.

• c. acceptable for linguistics and interaction.

Language by its nature is ......

• a. totally a grammatical phenomenon.

• b. totally a lexical phenomenon.

• c. totally a social phenomenon.

Sociolinguistics has to do with ....

• a. language use and a society’s phenomenon to it.

• b. language use and a society’s response to it.

• c. language and a society’s response to it.

Every language speaker utters words with some kind of accent which can tell the listeners .....

• a. where the speaker is from.

• b. the social status of the speaker.

• c. the ability of using language varieties.

Accent is ......

• a. the spoken varieties.

• b. the vernacular

• c. the way of pronouncing words showing which country the speaker is from.

Accent is frequently confused with ....

• a. pidgin.

• b. dialect.

• c. creole.

Dialect denotes .....

• a. aspects of pronunciation slightly different from the standard.

• b. aspects of pronunciation together with words and syntax quite different from the standard.

• c. aspects of pronunciation together with words and syntax slightly different from the standard.

Diglossia refers to a situation in which ......

• a. two dialects are used by a single language community.

• b. two languages are used by a single linguistic community.

• c. two dialects are used by some language communities.

Factors influencing language change are .....

• a. pidgin and creole.

• b. grammatical features.

• c. a & b are correct.