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UAS

Sociolinguistics

Venti Mawarni M.Hum

Answer some questions below !

1. Find out phenomena free variation and dialect mixture in linguistics in your country !
Explain!

2. In both the United States and the United Kingdom it is possible to hear pronunciations
of words like cart and car with or without the r pronounced.However, r-pronunciation
(or the lack of it) is differently valued on the twosides of the Atlantic. Explain some of
the complexities, linguistic and social, of r-pronunciation in the two countries.

3. What kinds of terms do you use? Do they fall into any kind of hierarchy?
4. Do taboo and euphemism serve any socially useful purpose?explain!
5. Is there any justification for the claim that different ethnic and social groups in society
sometimes exhibit quite different ways of speaking, even that a bilingual person may
sometimes behave quite differently, depending on which language he or she is using? If
there are such differences, are there any consequences for that society as a whole?

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