Varieties of English

Choose one class that is NOT among the varieties of English.

• Education and social standings

• Attitute

• Medium

• Gender

Regional variation seems to be realized in _______

• Dialects

• Geographical dispersion

• Phonology

• Lexicon

What is, in fact, the classic basis for linguistic variation?

• Dialects

• Geographical dispersion

• Grammatical variation

• Pronunciation

There is an important polarity of ______ in which the former can be identified with the regional dialect most completely and the latter moves away from dialectal usage to a form of English that cuts across dialectal boundaries.

• uneducated and educated speech

• dialect areas

• style

• grammar

Which social institutions DOES NOT tend to give educated speech the additional prestige?

• Government agencies

• The law court

• The hospital

• The pulpit

Varieties according to the subject matter involved in a discourse are sometimes referred to as ____

• Registers

• Regional dialect

• Lexical items

• Subject

Which of the following is an example of the "particular set of lexical items" mentioned?

• Greetings and farewells

• Legal terminology such as "plaintiff" or "contract"

• Regional dialect words like "y'all"

• Personal pronouns such as "he," "she," "they"

"Medium" refers to:

• The difficulty level of language

• The channel of communication (speaking vs. writing)

• The size of the audience

• The formality of expression

Spoken and written varieties differ mainly in:

• Vocabulary, grammar, and audience

• Formality, history, and region

• Accent, dialect, and pronunciation

• Channel, spontaneity, and permanence

Which following is NOT concerned with the choice of linguistic form that proceed our attitude to?

• Hearer/Reader

• Subject matter

• Purpose of communication

• Speaker