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WorksheetsMid-term test Szociolingvisztika és pszicholingvisztika ANO1111
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 30mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A process by which speakers of a language slowly stop using it, resulting in its dying out.
a)
language loss
b)
language loyalty
c)
language maintenance
d)
language of wider communication
2.
The ability (or lack of it) of speakers of a language to stand up to the pressure of more powerful ones.
a)
language loyalty
b)
language loss
c)
language planning, or language policy
d)
language shift
3.
A situation where speakers continue to use a language even when there is a new language available.
a)
language standardization
b)
language maintenance
c)
language loss
d)
language loyalty
4.
Language chosen by speakers of several different languages to communicate with each other.
a)
metaphorical switching
b)
language of wider communication
c)
language loss
d)
language loyalty
5.
Any effort to modify language form or use.
a)
language of wider communication
b)
language loyalty
c)
language planning, or language policy
d)
language shift
6.
Changes in the degree of functional use from one language to another.
a)
language standardization
b)
mixed code
c)
language shift
d)
microsociolinguistics
7.
The imposing of a norm on the grammar and pronunciation of a language.
a)
metaphorical switching
b)
language maintenance
c)
mixed code
d)
language standardization
8.
Area of sociolinguistic study which concentrates on the use of a variety and its social significance.
a)
language shift
b)
language standardization
c)
language planning, or language policy
d)
macrosociolinguistics or the sociology of language
9.
Changing from one language to another to signal a change in role relationship.
a)
metaphorical switching
b)
language maintenance
c)
language of wider communication
d)
mixed code
10.
Area of sociolinguistic study which concentrates on linguistic variables and their significance.
a)
microsociolinguistics
b)
language shift
c)
macrosociolinguistics or the sociology of language
d)
language planning, or language policy
11.
A variety with extensive code switching used by bilinguals to talk to each other.
a)
metaphorical switching
b)
mixed code
c)
microsociolinguistics
d)
language of wider communication
12.
Groups of people who communicate with each other regularly.
a)
microsociolinguistics
b)
networks
c)
macrosociolinguistics or the sociology of language
d)
metaphorical switching
13.
A research technique involving asking strangers short non-personal questions.
a)
language maintenance
b)
politeness
c)
non-intrusive responses
d)
networks
14.
The claim that there is one 'correct' version and all variation is deviant.
a)
social stratification
b)
networks
c)
normativism
d)
non-intrusive responses
15.
How can we observe the way people speak when they are not being observed?
a)
performance
b)
social stratification
c)
politeness
d)
observer's paradox
16.
Writing (and spelling) system.
a)
normativism
b)
non-intrusive responses
c)
networks
d)
orthography
17.
Linguistic behaviour (as opposed to linguistic knowledge).
a)
performance
b)
observer's paradox
c)
politeness
d)
register
18.
A variety of language that is not a native language of anyone, but is learned in contact situations.
a)
synchronic variation
b)
pidgin
c)
post-creole continuum
d)
sociolinguistic interview
19.
Recognition of other's rights in a social situation.
a)
sociolinguistic interview
b)
turn-taking
c)
politeness
d)
social stratification
20.
When speakers of a creole or pidgin are introduced, usually by education, to the standard language on which the creole or pidgin was originally based.
a)
solidarity
b)
observer's paradox
c)
sociolinguistic interview
d)
post-creole continuum
21.
Variety associated with a specific function.
a)
register
b)
styles
c)
normativism
d)
pidgin
22.
Collection of varieties or languages spoken by a group of people.
a)
repertoire
b)
non-intrusive responses
c)
performance
d)
post-creole continuum
23.
Efforts by a group to resist language loss.
a)
revitalization
b)
reversing language shift
c)
pidgin
d)
social stratification
24.
The restoration to a language of vitality.
a)
normativism
b)
revitalization
c)
observer's paradox
d)
performance
25.
Occasions in which one person (client, customer, patient) seeks help from another (seller, clerk).
a)
stereotypes
b)
solidarity
c)
service encounters
d)
reversing language shift
26.
A kind of jargon marked by its rejection of formal rules.
a)
speech community
b)
register
c)
slang
d)
repertoire
27.
The study of class distinction in speech.
a)
speech event
b)
speech community
c)
service encounters
d)
social stratification
28.
Technique of a recorded conversation intended to collect speech samples.
a)
styles
b)
speech event
c)
speech community
d)
sociolinguistic interview
29.
Feeling of shared experience and common group membership.
a)
solidarity
b)
normativism
c)
performance
d)
politeness
30.
(1) All the people who speak a single language (like English or French or Amharic); (2) a complex interlocking network of communication whose members share knowledge about and attitudes towards language use.
a)
speech community
b)
register
c)
orthography
d)
reversing language shift
31.
Act of human communication.
a)
register
b)
speech event
c)
orthography
d)
revitalization
32.
Any attempt to set up laws or norms for when to use a language.
a)
register
b)
status planning
c)
repertoire
d)
stereotypes
33.
Fixed and prejudicial patterns of thought about kinds of people that are often mistaken.
a)
synchronic variation
b)
repertoire
c)
stereotypes
d)
reversing language shift
34.
Varieties of language used by an individual appropriate to a level of formality.
a)
revitalization
b)
performance
c)
styles
d)
speech event
35.
Variation at a single point of time; d. diachronic variation.
a)
service encounters
b)
revitalization
c)
post-creole continuum
d)
synchronic variation
36.
Second-person pronouns, or names, or titles, used when speaking to someone.
a)
speech community
b)
speech event
c)
orthography
d)
terms of address
37.
Ways of signalling that the speaker intends to continue after a break, intended to keep the floor.
a)
turn-holders
b)
service encounters
c)
orthography
d)
post-creole continuum
38.
Rules for determining who speaks when in a conversational interchange.
a)
slang
b)
turn-taking
c)
solidarity
d)
status planning
39.
A linguistic feature (a sound, word, or grammatical form) which has more than one variant, each of which has a sociolinguistic significance.
a)
stereotypes
b)
slang
c)
variable
d)
solidarity
40.
A form (word, sound, or grammatical form) which alternates with another under definable conditions.
a)
status planning
b)
solidarity
c)
slang
d)
variant
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