Worksheets社會語言學CH2.
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is a linguistic repertoire?
any set of linguistic forms which patterns according to social factors.
the process by which words are adopted into one language from another.
the distinguishable varieties which are available for use in different social contexts.
the switches which are very well motivated in relation to the symbolic or social meanings of one's linguistic varieties.
When someone is making his code choice in a specific context, which factor may NOT be first put into consideration?
the topic he plans to discuss
the number of the addressees
his relationship with the participants
what kind of context he is involved in
Which is NOT the definition of Diglossia in a narrow sense?
Two distinct varieties (H and L) of the same language are used in the community.
The grammar of H variety is morphologically more complicated than that of L variety.
Each variety is used for quite distinct functions; H and L complement each other.
No one uses the H variety in everyday communication.
What are people's attitudes to the H variety in a diglossia situation?
worthless
respectful
ambivalent
comfortable
In general, in which domain would people choose the L variety as the media for communication?
religion
literature
shopping
schooling
What is the term to describe where a number of distinct codes or varieties are used for clearly distinct purposes or in clearly distinguishable situations?
diglossia
polyglossia
code-mixing
code-meshing
Which may NOT be an actual function of code-switching?
signal ethnic identity
quote well-known sayings
present one's multilingual proficiency
emphasize the precise message content
What are the attitudes of the majority monolingual groups to code-switching?
neutral
positive
negative
ambiguous
What is the main difference between lexical borrowing and code-switching?
the sound adaptation of the words
the speaker's levels of the language proficiency
what kind (content or functional) of words used in the utterance
how many words of the embedded language used in the utterance
What is the effect of the equivalence constraint on code-switching?
The forms of the switched words must look alike.
The switched words must occur in the same context.
The pronunciations of the switched words must be similar.
The grammars of the switched languages must match each other.
