Final Sociolinguistics

The better you know someone, the more formal the speech style you will use to them.

• True

• False

People use a simpler range of vocabulary and less complex grammar in addressing elderly people

• True

• False

Deliberately choosing a language not used by one’s addressee is the example of...

• Divergence

• Convergence

• Resurgence

Television adverts sometimes include accents which are not those of their audience for special effects such as humor. This is an example of:

• Divergence

• Convergence

• Resurgence

Selecting the appropriate ‘level’ of Javanese for a particular interaction involves, as elsewhere, taking account of your relationship to the addressee in context. This is an of:

• Register

• Style

• Context

language of groups of people with common interests or jobs, or the language used in situations associated with such groups is the definition of:

• Register

• Style

• Context

…. Is concerned with getting people to do things

• Expressive

• Referential

• Directive

….. utterances express solidarity and empathy with others

• Metalinguistic

• Expressive

• Phatic

The chicken metaphor tells the whole story of a girl’s life. In her youth she is a chick , then she marries and begins feeling cooped up, so she goes to hen parties where she cackles with her friends. Then she has her brood and begins to hen-peck her husband. Finally, she turns into an old biddy.

 

The above example shows that English to some extent is a...

• Gender-based language

• Sexist language

• International language

People from different cultures think differently because of differences in their Languages. This is a form of:

• Linguistic determinism

• Linguistic relativity

• Linguistic creativity