Sociolinguistics week 1

a group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes

• learners

• teachers

• society

• community

a system of linguistic communication particular to a group

• language

• spoken language

• signs

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

• society

• language

• sign

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

• descriptive grammar

• prescriptive grammar

• specific grammar

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

• true

• false

what speakers do with their language, is their performance.

• true

• false

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

• variations

• variants

• competence

• performance

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

• power

• solidarity

• competence

• performance

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

• collaquial

• creoles

• pidgins

• natives

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

• colloquial

• creole

• pidgins

• natives