ENG510 Midterm Past Papers Spring 2025

ENG510

Mid-Term

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Maha Malik

Spring 2025

MCQs by Zainee….

1. Linguistics differs from sociolinguistics in taking account only of the structure of language, to the exclusion of the social contexts in which it is learned and used.
2. Diagram based on the Wave model originally presented by Johannes Schmidt.
3. Synchronic linguistics Explores the functioning of language at a single time point without reference to earlier or later stages.
4. In Pakistan, for instance, official language; Urdu and English is used.
5. depends on the relation between participants. Dialect Code
6. Bilinguality is ‘psycho-measurement’, whereas bilingualism is the logical state of the individual who has access to more than one linguistic code.
7. Intra-sentential switching (code-mixing) as switching that takes place at the clause, phrase level, or at word level if no morphological adaptation occurs.
8. Sociolinguistic distinguishes between sex as a biological term and gender as a term used to describe socially.
9. Linguistic communications are heterogeneous.
10. Fairclough introduces the term Critical Language Study (CLS).
11. This led to the classic division of LPLP into: status planning, corpus planning and acquisition planning.
12. Twenty-four symbols are used in Korean language.
13. The official language of the United Kingdom is English.
14. Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations and context, on the way language is used, and society's effect on language.
15. Academy performs the process of codification. Society Writer None of these
16. Accents typically differ in quality of the voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress, and prosody.
17. Intra-sentential switching (code-mixing) as switching that takes place at the clause, phrase level or within the sentence.
18. Adulthood is the least explored life stage.
19. linguistic varieties which are at a particular speaker’s disposal is called verbal repertoire.

Q20. Kachru to refer to the continuum of bilinguialism as a) Zero point b) Central point

1. Upper point
2. All of these
3. AAVE stands for African American Vernacular English.
4. The use of the term register was criticized in the 1970s by David Crystal.
5. Pronunciation characteristic is specification to the difference in accents.
6. Politeness encodes social distance: It is a social norm and operates on the basis of a set of prescriptive social rules.
7. Lect is a specific form of a language or language cluster.
8. Idiolect: The speech habits peculiar to a particular person. It includes vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation and differs from a dialect shared by a group.
9. Linguistic Repertoire: The range of linguistic varieties an individual can use in different contexts. Includes all language forms available to a speaker.

3. Bilinguality vs Bilingualism:

o Bilinguality: A psychological state of accessing two linguistic codes. o Bilingualism: The actual use of two or more languages collectively.

4. Four stages of life span:

o Infancy/Childhood o Adolescence o Adulthood o Old age.

5. Standard Language Processes:

o Selection o Codification o Elaboration of function o Acceptance.

6. Aspects of Linguistic Hegemony:

o Language used as power o Standard language seen as ‘correct’ o Suppression of other languages/dialects.

7. Three Measuring Points of Kachru:

o Zero point: Limited competence o Central point: Use in administration, law, teaching o Upper point: Fluent use for social control.

8. Three Reasons for Language Diversity:

o Ethnicity and region o Political and historical events o Migration and contact situations.

9. Three Scientists in Sociolinguistics:

o William Labov o Peter Trudgill o Joshua Fishman.

10. Five Dialects in English:

•  Northeastern U.S.