Student’s name: Víctor Manuel López Castañeda Date: 20/05/20

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desconocido está bajo Licenciatura en Idiomas, Enseñanza y Diversidad Cultural
licencia CC BY-NC-SA Tópico Especial en Diversidad Cultural: Contextos Sociolingüísticos en los Estados
Unidos.
Profesora: Andrea Gorospe
3rd Partial Exam Points: _________ / Grade: _____________

1. Labov analysed different dialects of English by …

a) comparing their idiolects with Standard American English
b) creating a learning method for AAVE speakers
c) classifying waveforms associated with vowels and consonants

2. Labov’s work benefited from…

a) great interest from the public
b) the increased accuracy of technological devices
c) the lack of linguistic variation within individuals

3. Labov noticed that one cause for AAVE continuing as a separate dialect was…
a) Influence from tv broadcast
b) Residential segregation
c) lack of quality educators

4. Labov studied AAVE because educators were asking themselves…

a) why students had problems learning how to read
b) how to teach African Americans in a better way
c) why African Americans could understand TV shows normally

5. According to Labov, unprivileged African American students had problems learning how to read
Standard English…
a) because they did not have access to teachers
b) because AAVE speakers have their own grammar.
c) since they had cognitive difficulties

6. According to Labov, one of the most serious disadvantages, linguistically speaking, when trying to
collect speech samples is that…
a) interviews are difficult to design
b) interviews are answered in public speech
c) interviewees tend to explain themselves a lot and speak for long periods of time
d) interviewees most likely will not stay on the topic of the interview

7. Before his systematic study on New York’s linguistic variations, Labov…

a) did an extensive series of preliminary investigations including immersion and more than 30
interviews
b) spent days listening to a big number of recordings of NYC dwellers' speech
c) wrote an article on NYC inhabitants’ social stratification
 d) did 20 individual interviews and a great many observations in public spaces

8. With his study on NYC dwellers’ variations, Labov wanted to prove that… EXCEPT:
a) An inhabitant’s variation may assist on moving to a different social class
b) the linguistic variable (r) is a social diferentiator of NYC population
c) rapid and anonymous speech events could be studied systematically

9. Labov selected questions like the following: Where are the women’ shoes? Because, EXCEPT:
a) It would feel normal to the salesperson
b) It would result in an emphatic answer.
c) It would elicit the phonemes he wanted to analyse.
d) It was of social significance

10. Complete Gee’s definition of context (options: bodies, communication, done, gestures, movements.
physical setting, said, shared) :
“It includes the physical settings in which the communication takes place, and everything in it; the
bodies, eye gaze, gestures, and movements of those present; what has previously been said and done
by those involved in the communication and any shared knowledge those involved have, including
shared cultural knowledge.”

# QUESTIONS L ANSWERS
1. F Discourse A a word or expression whose meaning is
dependent on the context in which it is
used
2. G Deixis tool shows… B what the community considers the most
relevant within the idea that it is trying
to communicate.
3. A Definition of indexical C pitch, volume, stress, or enunciations
that are marked in some other way.
4. B The subject tool tells us… D An answer that is expected as it is the
second part of an adjacency pair.
5. c The intonation tool implies paying attention to E will allow you to see if there was a more
natural way to say the same thing and
then focus on why the speaker chose
that way to mention the same idea.
6. H The doing and not just saying tool F What is said (or written or expressed
through other modalities) and conveys a
message from a speaker but also from a
community.
7. E The why this way and not that way tool G What is being assumed that the listener
already knows so there is not a need to
mention the referent.
8. D Preferred refers to … H can be applied more easily after
understanding what speech acts are.
9. I According to the author of the tools we studied, I Germanic / Latinate
Latinate reflect a more formal or academic use
of the English language.
10. J The Tools you used to do Discourse Analysis J James Paul Gee
were proposed by