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WorksheetsSociolinguistics Quiz
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 12mins
True or false? Briefly account for your choice.
The difference between a dialect and a language is inherently linguistic.
Which of the following terms are related to diastratic variation?
genderlect
regional dialect
jargon
semantic narrowing
Which of these words is ambiguous?
idolect
genderlect
accent
lingua franca
Tick the false statements.
A pidgin is a creole which becomes grammatically more complex and becomes the mother language of a speech community
Creoles are less complex than languages
The speakers of a pidgin aren't native speakers of any language.
African American English is a pidgin
Which of the following features of AAE does the following sentence illustrate? --> Ma sister ain't no ole woman. She git angry easily.
Diphthong reduction
Consonant cluster reduction
Neutralization of 'e'
Habitual be
What do sociolinguists mostly study?
Competence
I-language
Performance
Society
Which of these statements about taboo words is true?
Taboo words are related to a phenomenon known as 'the euphemism treadmill'.
Taboo words are related to diastratic, diatopic, diachronic and diaphasic variation.
Taboo words lead to the emergence of pidgins.
All languages have taboo words.
'Situation dialects' are also known as registers and styles. They illustrate diaphasic variation and many of them are learnt at school.
True
False
Which of these terms is NOT related to diatopic variation?
Isogloss
Genderlect
Jargon
Dialect
A homosexual man changing his idiolect to sound more masculine with his workmates is related to...
Code-switching
Genderlects
Accommodation Theory
Divergence
