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Code Switching

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Code Switching describes the process in which a communicatively competent multilingual speaker alternates or switches usually between two .............during the same conversation.

a)

languages

b)

language varieties

c)

code

d)

Any of the previous options

2.

Someone considers..... when they switch code

a)

participants

b)

solidarity

c)

Status

d)

None of the options

3.

A change in a particular factor, e.g. location (physical setting), participants or topic can bring about a change in code. This is called ........ code-switching.

a)

setting

b)

time

c)

situational

4.

People may switch within a speech event to discuss a particular topic.

a)

True

b)

False

5.

When someone code-switching for rhetorical reasons, drawing on the associations of the two codes, he/she indicates

a)

Metaphorical switching

b)

Lexical borrowing

c)

Affective switching

6.

People switch to another language to express a concept or describe an object for which there is no obvious word available in the language they are using.

This situation is called...

a)

Metaphorical switching

b)

Lexical borrowing

c)

Affective switching

7.

Engari [SO] now we turn to more important matters. (Switch between Maori and English). The kind of switching shown in the example is called...

a)

Effective switching

b)

Sentence switching

c)

Tag switching

d)

none of the options

8.

The speaker switches between two codes within sentences is called

a)

Intra-sentential Code Switching

b)

Inter-sentential Code Switching

c)

Tag switching

9.

The speaker switches between two codes at sentence boundaries is called

a)

Intra-sentential Code Switching

b)

Inter-sentential Code Switching

c)

Tag Switching

10.

In Matrix Language Frame (MLF), the dominant language is called the

a)

Matrix language

b)

Embedded Language

c)

Any of the previous options

11.

In Matrix Language Frame (MLF), The

language from which elements are inserted into the ML is called

a)

Matrix Language

b)

Embedded language

c)

Any of the previous options

12.

Matrix Language provides the morphosyntactic frame for ....

a)

Intra-sentential CS

b)

Inter-sentential CS

c)

Any of the previous options

13.

In .....words or phrases from another language are inserted into the first language within one sentence or utterance (Yletyinen 2004: 15)

a)

Intra-sentential CS

b)

Inter-sentential CS

c)

Tag-switching

14.

....... takes place between sentences, the switch occurs at a clause or sentence boundary where its clause or sentence is in different languages (Romaine, 1989:112)

a)

Intra-Sentential CS

b)

Inter-Sentential CS

c)

Tag-Switching