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I. Choose a correct one to complete each of the following sentences: (80 points/ 40 sentences)
1. Sociolinguistics is ……
a. a discipline that yokes society with linguistics.
b. a discipline that yokes sociology with linguistics.
c. a discipline that yokes socio with linguistics.
2. Every society has linguistic codes …….
a. acceptable for communication and interaction.
b. acceptable for communication and sociology.
c. acceptable for linguistics and interaction.
3. Language by its nature is ……
a. totally a grammatical phenomenon.
b. totally a lexical phenomenon.
c. totally a social phenomenon.
4. Sociolinguistics has to do with ….
a. language use and a society’s phenomenon to it.
b. language use and a society’s response to it.
c. language and a society’s response to it.
5. Every language speaker utters words with some kind of accent which can tell the listeners …..
a. where the speaker is from.
b. the social status of the speaker.
c. the ability of using language varieties.
6. Accent is ……
a. the spoken varieties.
b. the vernacular
c. the way of pronouncing words showing which country the speaker is from.
7. Accent is frequently confused with ….
a. pidgin.
b. dialect.
c. creole.
8. Dialect denotes …..
a. aspects of pronunciation slightly different from the standard.
b. aspects of pronunciation together with words and syntax quite different from the standard.
c. aspects of pronunciation together with words and syntax slightly different from the standard.
9. Diglossia refers to a situation in which ……
a. two dialects are used by a single language community.
b. two languages are used by a single linguistic community.
c. two dialects are used by some language communities.
10. Factors influencing language change are …..
a. pidgin and creole.
b. grammatical features.
c. a & b are correct.
11. A pidgin is ……
a. a way of pronouncing word.
b. the next stage of development for creole.
c. a mixture of two other languages.
12. Pidgins have …
a. limited vocabulary and poorly developed semantics.
b. limited vocabulary and poorly developed grammar.
c. limited pronunciation and poorly developed grammar.
KEY
1b 2a 3c 4b 5a 6c 7b 8c 9a 10a 11c 12b 13b 14c 15a 16c 17a 18c 19b 20c 21a 22a 23b
24c 25b 26b 27a 28b 29a 30b 31c 32b 33c 34b 35a 36b 37c 38c 39a 40a
II.
1. They are social class, social context, geographical origins, ethnicity, nationality, gender and age.
(a wrong factor: - 0,25m)
2. (Various answers: different vocabulary (1m) + different grammar (1m)
3. Because the language varieties have certain linguistic features in common.
4. No, it isn’t. (1m) Because spoken language is momentary. (1m)
5. They are locutionary acts, illocutionary acts, perlocutionary acts, propositional acts. (0,5m/each category)
6. Locutionary acts are simply acts of uttering sounds, syllables, words, phrases, and sentences from a
language. (1m)
-Illocutionary acts are performed in doing something with an utterance.
7. They are setting, participants, ends, act sequences, key, instrumentalities, norms and genre.(0,25 m/each
component)
8. The focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of society on the language.
9. It is accent.
10. It is a form that differs from other forms of the language.