a system of linguistic communication particular to a group

code can be defined as a ..................

sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropologists .................of languages, which describe, analyze, and explain how people actually speak their languages

what speakers know about their language, that is, their competence

what speakers do with their language, is their performance.

Different structures for expressing the same meaning are called................

.......................refers to the motivations which cause individuals to act together and to feel a common bond which influences their social actions

the initial efforts of two distinct speech communities to communicate to achieve a basic level of mutual comprehension

represents the birth of a new language when the children of pidgin speakers acquire it as their first language

the appropriate use of two languages according to social context

an individual employs two or more languages according to the social situation

the use of words and structures from more than one language or linguistic variety by the same speaker within the same speech situation,

to speak with good words is euphemism

the use of an unpleasant expression for a more desirable one is...................