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Maha Malik Sociolinguistics

1. Oxford Living Dictionaries define Sociolinguistics as the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of __________ dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. (all of the given options, class, occupational, regional)
2. Who asserted that the use of a language involves who speaks, what language, to whom, when and where? (Fishman)
3. According to whom language is a social value which researches social groups for phenomena like multilingualism and lingual conflict? (Su Chiao Chen)

Q4. Which of the following is a basic perspective on the study of language?

5. Structuralist school of linguistics has dominated the which century linguistics? (twentieth)
6. The term sociolinguistics can be defined as the study of language in relation to ___________. (society)
7. In its broad goal of describing language and its relationship to society, social behavior, and culture, Sociolinguistics overlaps with ______________. (Psychology, Dialectology, Philosophy, All of the given options)
8. Which of the following is a social function of language? (Varieties within language, All of the given options, Dialects, Spontaneous speech)
9. Sociolinguistics is a main growth point in the study of language from the perspectives of ___________. (None of the given options, Teaching, Both of the given options, Research)
10. What do we need to focus on to understand the sociolinguistic phenomenon in relation to the changing world? (None of the given options, Both of the given options, Dynamics of today’s world, Sociolinguistic Phenomena and its nature)
11. Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including _____________. (cultural norms, cultural expectations, all of the given options, context)
12. Which of the following is the lingua-franca in the exotic world of the north-west Amazon? (Tukano, Tamil, Mandarin, Telugu)
13. Which of the following is a sociolinguistic phenomenon or construct? (Style and Argot, Diglossia and Accent, All of the given options, Variety and Repertoire)
14. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. " An exogamous phratry means a man must not marry a woman from the same phratry or tribe." (True)
15. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. " In an Imaginary World, when the Sociolinguistic Phenomena is concerned, everybody has exactly the same language." (True)
16. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. " Sociolinguists would agree that it is highly unlikely that a Little World either does or even could exist." (True)
17. Identify whether the given statement is true of false. " The relationship between Sociolinguistic Phenomena and a Real but Exotic World can be understood in isolation." (False)
18. What do we see when we look at the unique features of the changing world around us? (None of the given options, Multilingualism, Both of the given options, Super diversity)
19. What does the variety of a language include? (Linguistic items, All of the given options, Grammatical features, Human speech patterns)
20. According to the Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992), how many broad types of language variety are there? (2)
21. In non-technical terms, variety is also called ___________. (all of the given options, dialect, style, language)
22. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. “It is reasonably hard to include social facts about lexical items along with the linguistic facts." (False)
23. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. “A variety may be much larger than a lay 'language', including a number of different languages." (True)
24. How many sub-varieties of Indian English are there? (2)
25. The feelings people have about their own language variety or the languages or language varieties of others are called _____________. (Language attitudes)
26. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. “Slang and argot are examples of variation at the level of lexicon.” (True)
27. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. “Lexical items are listed in a lexicon.” (True)
28. The term speech community is derived from the __________ Sprachgemeinschaft. (German)
29. What do Eckert and Ginet define as ‘an aggregate of people who come together around mutual engagements in some common endeavor?’ (Community of practice)
30. Mostly our speech communities, whatever they are, exist in a __________ world. (real)
31. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. The concept of repertoire is more useful when applied to individuals rather than to groups. (True)
32. Platt and Platt propose a ___________ between speech repertoire and verbal repertoire. (distinction)
33. Who defines a speech community as ‘a group of people who interact by means of speech?’ (Bloomfield)
34. Who defined a ‘real’ speech community as ‘all the people who use a given language (or dialect)? (Lyons)
35. Around how many languages are spoken London? (300)
36. According to___________, the kind of group that sociolinguists have generally attempted to study is called the speech community. (Patrick)
37. For purely ___________ theoretical purposes, Chomsky and other linguists have hypothesized the existence of an ‘ideal’ speech community? (practical)
38. Who presented the Euler diagram of Wave Model of language Contact and Change? (Johannes Schmidt)
39. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. " The popularity of the Wave Model of language Contact and Change increases due to the shortcomings of the Tree model." (True)
40. Who introduced the Model of the diffusion of innovations to sociolinguistics? (Peter Trudgill)
41. Identify whether the given statement is true or false. " Related to Le Page’s study, it has been noted that new vocabulary is easy to acquire but phonology may be harder to acquire even if the speaker has access to reliable models." (True)