WorksheetsDiglossia
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
The term linguistics repertoire refers to
a set of linguistic forms used under specific social circumstances
a set of skills and knowledge a person has of one or more languages
A social factor
a scale related to purpose of communication
In monolingual speech communities, the choice of linguistic repertoire is made of
one single language
two languages
Varieties of one single language
none of the answers
in multilingual speech communities a choice of linguistics repertoire is made up of
several languages and all linguistics varieties of all these languages
several languages
two languages
none of the answers
The domain of language use indicates social context of interaction
True
False
Typical domains in speech communities include
employment
religion
education
any of the previous option
Each domain has distinctive, domain-specific factors
addressee
setting
topic
All of the options
diglossia is a situation in which two distinct varieties of a language are spoken within the same speech community
True
False
Diglossia is a characteristic of speech individuals rather than communities
True
False
The term diglossia describes societal or institutionalised bilingualism, where two varieties are required to cover all the community’s domains.
True
False
in context of diglossia, two distinct varieties of the same language are used in community
high variety
low variety
both of the options
none none of the options
The term polyglossia has been used for situations where a community regularly uses more than three languages
True
False
