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Social Studies, World Languages
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Quiz sociolinguistics #1
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is sociolinguistics?
The branch of linguistics that analizes how people speak.
The field of sociology that focuses on people's linguistic behavior.
The discipline that explores the influence of social variables on people's linguistic behavior.
The science that follows ethnographic methods to discover social communicative behaviors.
- 2. Fill in the Blank
There are two types of networks, they are:
- 3. Multiple Choice
The word language in English can refer to:
The human skill, the channel and the national variety.
The set of signs, the skill of producing comprehensible utterances and the mother tongue.
The set of signs, the ability of communicating ideas and the language of a nation.
The capacity to communicate with others, the specific social variety and the channel of communication.
- 4. Fill in the Blank
There are ___ types of dialects: ________
- 5. Multiple Choice
A dialect is:
A wrong way to use a language.
The twisted form of a legitimate language.
The reflection of social action on language.
A variety of a language with its particularities.
- 6. Fill in the Blank
Register is the variation of language determined by:
- 7. Fill in the Blank
Style depends on:
- 8. Multiple Choice
What is the difference between language and speech communities?
Speech communities are variable and depénd on social markers, language communities are stable and do not change.
Language communities share the same language, speech communities share common ways of expression.
Speech communities require the same social variables, while language communities only need the same nationality.
Language communities must share the same language and speech communities have to stick to the same social symbols.
- 9. Multiple Choice
What specific discipline studies dialects?
Semiotics
Sociolinguistics
Semiology
Dialectology
- 10. Fill in the Blank
The spacial distribution of dialects is studied by:
- 11. Fill in the Blank
Linguistic planning is:
- 12. Multiple Choice
Linguistic policies are:
Attitudes towards a specific language.
Actions that support the consolidation of a specific language variety.
Plans and decrees that forbid a language.
Activities that are planned to make everybody bilingual.
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