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WorksheetsWeek 6 Defining Groups
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
1. ___________ tell individuals how to behave in given situations.
Values
Laws
Norms
Rituals
1. Sociology throws light on the __________ nature of man.
Animal
Psychological
Social
Motivational
Selecting the appropriate speech act strategies and the linguistic forms for realizing it depends on
the social status and the culture of the interlocutors
their age
their social distance
All of these
´What is a community of practice?
´A group of people living in the same place.
´A group of people who share a common concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
Use of an idea, belief, or method, as opposed to theories relating to it.
´What are the three main parts of a community of practice?
´Community, Meaning and Identity
´Domain, Community and Practice
´Community, Meaning and Identity
The definition of SOCIAL IDENTITY is
A person's sense of who they are based on their group membership.
A group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language
The people involved in this network who you know and interact with also know and interact with one another.
The people with this network are tied together in more than one way.
COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE is......
An aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagements in some common endeavor.
A group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language
The people involved in this network who you know and interact with do not know and interact with one another.
The people with this network are tied together in more than one way.
MULTIPLEX SOCIAL NETWORK is..........
The people involved in this network who you know and interact with also know and interact with one another.
This term refers to the variety of a language that is considered to be the norm.
The people with this network are tied together in more than one way.
The ability to understand how ideas are connected through patterns of organization, cohesive and transitional device.
Language also reflects one’s self-identity and it is indispensable for social interactions.
True
False
•It describes a distinct group of people who use language in a unique and mutually accepted way among themselves.
speech community
pidgin
gender
standarization
The definition of SOCIAL IDENTITY is
A person's sense of who they are based on their group membership.
A group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language
The people involved in this network who you know and interact with also know and interact with one another.
The people with this network are tied together in more than one way.
Domain= Language varieties mastered by the same speaker to different degrees of proficiencies and for different purposes
True
false
1. ...is a speech variety of an individual speaker.
Idiolect
Lect
... are based upon membership in a longstanding socially-isolated or separate groups.
sociolects/social dialects
regional dialects
Idiolects can distinguish an individual from other members of a community.
TRUE
FALSE
It is an individual’s way of speaking, including sounds, words, grammar, and style.
dialect
idiolect
conversational interchange
sociolinguistics
There are two types of networks, they are:
(a)
A dialect is:
A wrong way to use a language.
The twisted form of a legitimate language.
The reflection of social action on language.
A variety of a language with its particularities.
What is the difference between language and speech communities?
Speech communities are variable and depénd on social markers, language communities are stable and do not change.
Language communities share the same language, speech communities share common ways of expression.
Speech communities require the same social variables, while language communities only need the same nationality.
Language communities must share the same language and speech communities have to stick to the same social symbols.
What specific discipline studies dialects?
Semiotics
Sociolinguistics
Semiology
Dialectology
Generally, idiolect tend to sound similar with whom that has the same educational backgrounds and/or occupations.
TRUE
FALSE
A set of norms and expectations for the uses of a language is made by _______?
A. Government
B. Social Community
C. Teacher
D. Local People
