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32 MCQs; 8 Questions of 3 Marks & 4 Questions of 5 Marks

Time Duration: 120 minutes

1. Twitter users have 140 characters to express

2. Being a native speaker gives a sense of community and with that sense of IDENTITY

3. Multilingualism is a SOCIAL norm

4. Urbanisation can be taken as a positive SOCIOECNOMIC factor

  1. General practices of CODEMIXING in Pakistan are reflected in names and titles.

6. Women use more TAG QUESTIONS which show social positioning

  1. Scope of research in social linguistics relate to most up-to-date and most rapidly advancing areas of research including language and IDENTITY.
  2. Sociolinguistics provides possibilities of exploring LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL contexts.
  3. Gesture sticking out tongue stands for anger in INDIA.

10. the common greetings khush amdid, aslam o alaikum, Hi, hello

pakistan✅ · Japanese · German · Brazil

11. heer ranjha from jhung is very famous is the folklore of

panjabi ✅ · sindhi · balochi · pakhtun

12. L2 acquisition is the process by which people learn a SECOND language

  1. the media that use electronic and electromechanical audience to access the content is known as ------ media

electronic ✅

print

  1. the race for individual prosperity and ------ development at the national level seems to have overtaken issues of colonial language

Economic ✅ · social · linguistics

  1. modern sociolinguistics originated in the ------ 1960 as an interdisciplinary subfield interesting sociology, anthropology and linguistics

1960✅

1970 · 1980 · 1990 · 16. how many daily users of snap chat

173✅

Q17. Which of the following is the study of voice and how words are said?

Paralinguistic communication. Nonverbal comm. Verbal comm.

Complex comm

  1. The knowledge and ability to use language aproprietlyin any given social context is known as.............

Linguistic competence Sociolinguistic performance

Sociolinguistic competence

  1. A newspaper reporter she always wanted to et information "as first hand" express the idiom.

Direct · Easily · Slowly · Quickly · 20. low variety is learnt as a · Third lang · Foreign · Second lang · Mother tongue

  1. The role of media in processes of linguistic change is one of the most contested issues in sociolinguistics.

Contemporary Traditional · Old · Archaic

  1. Types of relation that comes from mothers blood line.

Matrilineal · Patrilineal · Matrilocal · patriotic

  1. Types of relation that comes from father’s blood line.

Matrilineal · Patrilineal · Matrilocal · patriotic

  1. following network is defined by the activities like,"who your friends are, who you live near, who you have dinner, or have drinks with,"

Social · Dense · Loose · Movable · 25. the scope of research in sociolinguistics is · Restricted · Narrow · Limited · Immense

  1. Sociolinguistics provides the possibilities of exploring .............. Context and making comparisons and contrasts.

Local and international · American and British Local and regional · Local and national · 27. Acquisition is a ............. Process · Subconscious · Unconscious · Conscious · Hypothetical

28. in which the following the policies was laid on ideological aspects

1992 · 1970 · 1979 · 1972 policy

  1. According to Crystal, there are more speakers of eng as second or other language than as a ...... Lang.

Fifth · Forth · Third · First

  1. Internet chat room and social networking likes are encouraging children to write................. Incorrect sentences

Syntactically

Phonologically Orthographically

  1. which of the following language was always been favoured in all the language policies and constitutions of Pakistan.

French Arabic Eng

Urdu

Q32. Which of the following is major determining factor while addressing someone?

Gender Age · Class · Culture

33. lang change can be defined as variation over time in lang and is studied by

Historical ling Computational ling · Applied ling · Psycholinguistics

  1. To understand the lang shift process in Pakistan , we need to understand the ........ Factors attached to it

Identity · Prestige · Economic · Political · 35. Media has ...... The lang choice in pak · Broadened · Narrowed · Influenced · Motivated

36. eng lang in pak has proved to be more of a weapon of ling

Change · Diversity · Imperialism · Variety

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