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Total questions: 145
Worksheet time: 1hrs 13mins
Linguistic, based on the scope of studies, can be divided into micro and macro ______.
grammar
linguistic
communication
semantics
Phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics are all the branches of ______.
macro-linguistics
psycholinguistic
micro-linguistic
applied linguistic
Macro-linguistic studies language in its relationship with ______.
phonetics only
grammar only
phenomena outside language
morphology
Sociolinguistics is considered a part of ______.
Morphology
macro-linguistic
micro-linguistic
Phonology
Socio-linguistic is the study of language in relation to its ______- cultural context.
historical
socio
psycho
political
Sociolinguistic is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and ______ on the way language is used.
context
communication
education
history
Sociolinguistic is the study of the relationship between ______ and society.
language
communication
culture
interaction
One of the main concerns of sociolinguistic is to identify the social ______ of language.
functions
grammar
origins
forms
In common social communication, sociolinguistics helps us shape our ______ by the use of language.
grammar
character
culture
emotions
In common social communication, language functions not only as a means of communication but also as a means of ______ and maintaining social relationship.
ignoring
avoiding
creating
destroying
In commerce, advertising is regarded as a form of ______ designed by senders to produce reactions, behaviors, or attitudes from receivers.
education
entertainment
translation
communication
In commerce, advertisers enhance their communication skills by using sociolinguistics to ______ consumers effectively.
control
persuade
command
speak to
In medicine, the interaction between doctors and patients mainly focuses on the ______ doctors use.
facilities
medicines
prescriptions
language
In politics, using persuasive language helps politicians to gain ______ from the public.
ignorance
support
silence
opposition
In language teaching, sociolinguistics is important because school instructions mainly include the use of ______.
sports
music
art
language
The widespread applications of sociolinguistics in commerce, medicine, politics, and education demonstrate its ______ position in our life.
temporary
significant
optional
minor
Sociolinguistics is applied in many fields because it provides ______ applications for practical communication.
successful
practical
effective
widespread
The notion of ______ variation refers to differences in language use in each region.
cultural
phonological
grammatical
sociolinguistic
People living in one location often use different ______ of the same language.
styles
varieties
accents
genres
People in different places tend to use language varieties to be ______ for those living there.
formal
appropriate
modern
similar
Language is often described as a/an ______ entity.
regional
fixed
uniform
collection
When mentioning the ______ of a language, linguists provide the terms such as accent, dialect, vernacular, and diglossia.
registers
styles
varieties
levels
Linguists can observe and study several of the varieties, but ______ of them.
all
none
not all
both
Nowadays, American English is used popularly all over the world as a second language for people of different occupations in ______ with other people from other countries.
competition
contact
conflict
comparison
In Vietnam, the Vietnamese language is spoken with three distinct ______: northern, central, and southern.
Registers
Genres
Accents
Dialects
Different communities in societies use various forms of language which are called ______.
varieties
dialects
registers
codes
During communication, vocabulary, phonology, and ______ are gradually changed to meet new contacts.
grammar
semantics
morphology
pragmatics
An English sentence may be affected by vocabulary, phonology, prosody, and grammar from French or the native language of ______ people.
immigrant
foreign
ordinary
local
Linguists study language varieties at all levels: phonetics, syntactical, stylistic, and, above all, ______.
phonological
lexical
semantic
morphological
Linguists analyze both the common core and the ______ features of individual language varieties.
specific
universal
stylistic
phonological
The differences between spoken and written modes are not ______.
absolute
temporary
similar
predictable
Some spoken texts will be more like ______ texts than others.
printed
visual
written
formal
Language is often described as a/an ______ entity, meaning it varies rather than being fixed.
Immutable
Uniform
Regional
Collected
Compared to written language, spoken language often tends to be ______.
More permanent
More grammatical
Less precise
More formal
Written language is often more ______ and sophisticated than spoken language.
Casual
Articulate
Playful
Vague
The choice of words frequently depends on the speaker’s immediate ______.
Knowledge
Need
Culture
Grammar
What term describes the spread and use of a language across occupations when interacting with foreigners?
Competition
Conflict
Comparison
Contact
People living in one location often use different ______ of the same language.
Scripts
Accents
Codes
Genres
Different communities use various forms of language that are called ______.
Varieties
Registers
Codes
Dialects
In sociolinguistics, what does the ideational function primarily represent?
Organization of textual messages
Choice of grammatical rules
Status of social relations
State of events in the world
Vietnam is described as what type of country in terms of language diversity?
Multilingual society overall
Monolingual society overall
Unilingual society overall
Bilingual society overall
Which statement captures the interpersonal function of language?
Enacts social relations
Describes natural events
Structures textual cohesion
Labels conceptual fields
Teachers are advised to use which variety so students can imitate it?
Playful informal variety
Dialectal local variety
Academic standard variety
Casual conversational variety
Language helps society primarily to do what over time?
Develop institutions further
Preserve artifacts mainly
Maintain traditions only
Survey populations regularly
Which description fits linguistic rules in vocabulary, phonetics, phonology, and grammar?
System of rules organized
Collection of exceptions
Loose set of patterns
List of principles only
Fluent English speakers often access which economic outcome in international firms?
Average salary limits
Low salary ceilings
Unstable wage patterns
High salary opportunities
The two basic concepts in language ______ are speech act and speech event.
change
learning
teaching
use
The speech act and speech event theories are based on the interpretation of ______.
conservations
speeches
gestures
writings
Language is used in order to play specific functions in communicative ______.
choices
messages
contacts
actions
Meaning and ______ of language are the aspects linguists have paid their attention to.
pronunciation
grammar
vocabulary
usage
The information of language use in linguistic groups is the ______ that linguists want to get.
subject
result
opinion
objective
Linguists ______ linguistic minorities with their stable status in the mother tongue.
attack
defend
ignore
abandon
When we make up a sentence, it has not only meaning but also some ______.
vocabulary
pronunciation
function
structure
Speech act are divided into four important ______.
accents
categories
languages
meaning
Locutionary meaning refers to the ______ meaning of an utterance conveyed by its particular words and structures.
Implied
literal
contextual
figurative
An illocutionary act is using in a sentence to perform a ______.
description
statement
function
gesture
Perlocutionary act is the ______ or effects that are produced by means of saying something.
intentions
structures
meanings
results
Propositional act has to do with the ______ of utterances, the basic acts of referring and predicating.
function
structure
content
meaning
The representative describes a state of ______ in the world.
affairs
events
issues
conditions
The commissive speech act commits the speaker to the course of action, such as ______, vowing, threatening, offering.
apologizing
describing
promising
questioning
The ______ speech act changes the world by bringing about or altering the state of affairs it names, such as dismissing, sentencing, naming, announcing, or declaring.
directive
commissive
expressive
declarative
The ______ speech act intends to get the listener to carry out an action.
expressive
declarative
directive
commissive
The expressive speech act indicates the speaker's ______ about something, such as greeting, apologizing, complaining, or thanking.
command
intention
attitude
request
The rogative speech act refers to a special kind of directives which deals with requests for ______ and which is typically in the form of a question.
permission
advice
information
commands
A speech event relates to social ______ events involving communication and ways to use speech resources of the community.
grammatical
transactional
functional
interactional
Setting is the ______ in which people use language to be in communicative contact.
structure
meaning
message
context
People who take part in the speech situation are called ______.
speakers
participants
observers
listeners
Which term refers to the results and goals of each speech situation?
Ends
Forms
Means
Participants
Which aspects of speech situations refers to the forms and contents of acts?
Functions
Contexts
Sequences
Intentions
Which of the following is being communicated in act sequences?
Emotion
Information
Thought
Intention
What does the key of speech event refer to?
Manner
Setting
Content
Function
Which aspect of communication does instrumentality refer to?
Function
Purpose
Message
Channel
Which aspect of communication in the speech context is referred to as genre?
Structure
Purpose
Content
Style
What aspect of speech events ensures that communication is adequately understood within a society?
Imitation
Translation
Interpretation
Expression
Which basic aspects of speech in a given society develop speech acts?
Functions
Gestures
Sentences
Sounds
What do the functions of speech in a given society develop?
Sounds
Gestures
Functions
Speech acts
Idiolect is the speech variety of a/an ______ speaker.
social
individual
regional
national
A language used in a state or a region in a country is called a/an ______.
dialect
jargon
slang
pidgin
The language ______ brings people together when language is used in a common way.
region
variation
community
feature
What exists as clusters or groups of people who share common linguistic behavior in a region?
varieties
registers
communication
dialects
Which dialects are based on geographically isolated groups?
social languages
regional dialects
idiolects
social dialects
At an early age, children are exposed to ______ languages and are inclined to create idioglossias.
multiple
individual
genre
norm
Sociolinguistics think that an idiolect is a continuum of ______.
network
community
state
dialects
An ______ refers to pronunciation and a/an ______ refers to a whole group of language features.
register/dialect
genre/pidgin
accent/dialect
idiolect/slang
What is invented and spoken by only one or a very few people?
an idioglossia
an accent
a region
a dialect
What do people create when there are small differences in the way they talk?
a maximum dialect
a minimal dialect
a current dialect
a various dialect
The language variation between groups is called ______ variation.
intergroup
standard
structural
national
A dialect is any variety of a language characterized by systematic differences in ______, grammar, and vocabulary.
spelling
writing
pronunciation
meaning
Linguists believe isolation can be across time, geography, or ______ barriers.
economic
cultural
political
social
In different regions, English is used in different ways, such as British English, American English, and ______ English.
Italian
Australian
Japanese
German
What language do people in the Mekong River region of Vietnam usually use in conversations?
foreign words
sociolects
local words
idiolects
What is true about the languages spoken in different parts of China?
unintelligible
grammatical
intelligible
intelligible
When an idiolect develops within a household, it becomes a/an ______.
idioglossia
dialect
sociolect
ecolect
Forensic linguists can use ______ to identify whether a person produced a specific piece of writing.
idioglossia
sociolects
idiolects
dialects
The private language of twins is called ______.
ecolect
cryptophasia
twin dialects
sociolect
In the United States, many features of White English represent linguistic ______.
Africanisms
Europeanisms
Asianisms
Americanisms
Social status is based on rank, prestige, and ______.
age
education
ethnicity
social class
In countries such as Singapore, the Philippines, and India, ______ English is used in government, education, media, and business.
standard
regional
dialectal
colloquial
The changes of idiolects are ______ when people contact each other.
rare
continuous
temporary
limited
In the group, no individual speaker uses the ______ language all the time.
different
same
simple
easy
Sociolects are based upon membership in a ______ socially isolated or separate group.
longstanding
temporary
regional
casual
People in the North, Central, and South of Vietnam speak with different ______ and dialects.
accents
registers
idiolects
sociolects
A Northern American might say, "hello." A Southern American might say, "howdy." These are examples of ______.
idioglossia
sociolect
register
dialect
What is the unique way of speaking of one person called?
dialect
idiolect
sociolect
register
In business, people used a simplified language, a pidgin, to have a common language.
False
Partly true
True
Unclear
Although pidgins are second languages, they are popular in society.
Only in trade
False
True
Only historically
When contacting foreigners, Vietnamese people cannot speak their language; therefore, Vietnamese make their language so simple that they fail to understand.
True
False
True for tourists
Sometimes true
Pidgins are standard languages with their simplified rules.
True
False
Only in schools
Only in media
When people of so many races live in a place, the issue of social dialects is extremely ______.
simple
normal
easy
complex
A ______ is the variety of language characteristic of a social background or status.
sociolect
dialect
speech
pidgin
______ are more flexible than status and also vary according to the speech situation.
Creolisation
Sociology
Speech
Lects
People in remote, isolated places develop unique linguistic characteristics that eventually become ______ elements of their dialects.
easy
distinguishing
simple
confusing
Dialectology is a branch of Linguistics which examines language ______ and change.
history
variation
idiolect
function
Each member in the community expresses a linguistic ______ restricted or elaborated within its application.
accent
code
dialect
register
The language is not a ______ structure but a sum of all its dialects.
regional
grammatical
social
monolithic
The standard variety is used in ______ life and at schools or colleges.
family
public
cultural
private
Pidgins emerge among people who do their business while they preserve their native ______ for their daily interactions.
slangs
vocabularies
jargons
slang
Sociolects are based upon membership in a long-standing socially-isolated or ______ group.
regional
common
separate
grammatical
Among the varieties, standard variety holds the highest status in the community because the highest social classes and the most ______ people use it.
educated
cultural
private
young
Where does the change of languages take place when a pidgin is formed?
speech communities
Families
Villages
Schools
What does a pidgin become as a result of pidginisation?
Norm
Standard
Jargon
Dialect
What kind of language is a pidgin related to the native languages?
Written
Contact
Spoken
Standard
What is the process called when a simplified language becomes a fully developed native language?
Code-switching
Pidginisation
Standardisation
Creolisation
British English is used in school, print, mass media, and is taught to non-native speakers as a _______.
sociolect
dialect
second language
first language
Which of the following is NOT an example of pidgin?
Pidgin Russian
Pidgin French
Pidgin Latin
Pidgin English
In which speech communities does the change of languages take place when a pidgin is formed?
written
internal
Formal
spoken
In the process of pidginisation, what typically occurs to the structural complexity of a language?
Correcting
Changing
Reducing
Combining
How is a pidgin different from native languages?
Easy use
Simplification
Admixture
All are correct
To which field does the study of pidgin and pidginisation belong?
Syntax
Phonology
Semantics
Sociolinguistics
What do pidgins make possible in a complex linguistic setup?
Silence
Confusion
Isolation
Communication
Being different from official languages, a pidgin has no _______.
foreigners
sociolects
registers
native speakers
Pidginization is a complex process of sociolinguistic ______ in internal form, simplifying the rules of language in use.
variation
development
decrease
rise
A pidgin is a grammatically simplified way of communication between two communities who do not share a ______ language.
local
common
first
second
In the process of pidginisation, what typically occurs to the structural complexity of a language?
Combining
Correcting
Changing
Reducing
How is a pidgin different from native languages?
Easy use
Admixture
All are correct
Simplification
To which field does the study of pidgin and pidginisation belong?
Syntax
Phonology
Sociolinguistics
Semantics
What do pidgins make possible in a complex linguistic setup?
Silence
Isolation
Confusion
Communication
Being different from official languages, a pidgin has no ______.
registers
foreigners
sociolects
native speakers
Pidginization is a complex process of sociolinguistic ______ in internal form, simplifying the rules of language in use.
rise
development
variation
decrease
A pidgin is a grammatically simplified way of communication between two communities who do not share a ______ language.
local
first
second
common
A creole is the ______ of first language of some of its speakers – the children of people having made use of a pidgin for a long time.
native
simplified
foreign
common
Linguists considered pidginization second-language learning with ______ input.
restricted
different
foreign
first
In comparison to other languages, pidgins are usually ______.
listed
standardized
disdained
noted
Pidgin develops out of need to enhance ______.
immigration
expansion
communication
information
The two generations involved in ______ is parents and children.
creolization
dialectology
pidginization
sociology
