Test revison 1

What does the term 'constructions of social identity' refer to?

• Ethnicity
• British Black English
• Ways individuals define themselves in relation to social surroundings
• New Englishes

What does 'speaker innovation' refer to?

• Real-time change
• Wave theory
• Koines and koineisation
• Development of new features in speakers or sound systems

What is the everyday language spoken by people in a particular region called?

• Dialect chain
• Vernacular
• Sociolinguistic patterns
• Social dialect

What is sharp and fine stratification?

• Methodology
• Gender-preferential features
• Type of social stratification
• Gender-exclusive features

What are gender-preferential features?

• Linguistic features more commonly used by one gender
• Methodology
• Gender-exclusive features
• Sharp and fine stratification

What does 'audience design' refer to?

• Apparent-time change
• Adjusting speech to accommodate listeners' background
• Change from above
• Style

What does 'audience design' involve?

• Change from below
• Speaker innovation
• Style
• Adapting speech for a particular group

What is 'speech accommodation'?

• Adjusting speech patterns to match another person
• Referee design
• Labovian methodology
• Observer’s paradox

What does 'speech convergence' mean?

• Stylisation
• Hypercorrection
• Speech functions
• Modifying speech to become more alike

What is 'speech divergence'?

• Speech accommodation
• Observer’s paradox
• Register
• Maintaining differences in speech to emphasize distinctiveness