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هامنا
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A-German
B-Korean
C-French
D-English
2-The language variety used among people sharing the same job (engineers) is called.
A-style
B-Linga franca
C-register
D-dialect
3-Children learn about the different aspects of the structure of conversation including.
A-Catalan
B-French
C-Flemish
D-Italian
5-in a diglossic community, the high variety is used in which of the following domains?
A-home
B-friendship
C-political cartoons
D-university lecture
6-which of the following does not impose an obligation of the interlocutor to provide an answer?
A-who is that
D-I’ve never seen that person who is standing over there before?
A-Esperanto
B-Hausa
C-Catalan
D-Swahili
A-culture
B-vernacular
C-random sequence
D-conversation
9-Which of the following countries does not contain indigenous linguistic minorities?
A-Germany
B-France
C-Iceland
D-Belgium
A-linguistic aspects
B-verbal repertoire
C-register
D-style
11-the type of language planning which decides the role to be played by which language is known
as.
A-corpus planning
B-dialect planning
C-status planning
D-acquisition planning
12-
1-where were you last night?
2-could you tell the court where you were on the night of Saturday, the fourth of April?
What is the difference between these two utterances?
A-genderlect difference
B-diglossia difference
C-dialectal difference
D-stylistic difference
B-Australia
C-Switzerland
D-south Africa
14-a term used to describe context where two distinct languages verities coexist, each is assigned
a definite social function
A-diglossia
B-registers
C-code switching
D-multilingualism
A-French
B-Swahili
C-Malay
D-English
16-many Mexican American speak a mixture of Spanish and English, this can be called
A-mixed dialects
B-code switching
C-conversation analysis
D-indirentness
17-people who could speak more than two languages are called
A-multilingual
B-monolingual
C-diglossic
D- bilingual
18-englsih is considered the most widely used ……… of the world today.
A-lingua franca
B-classical language
C-national language
D-standard language
A-grammar
B-pronunciation
C-vocabulary
20-……. changes from formal to informal according to the context in which the language is used.
A-style
B-dialect
C-context
D-register
False
2-the process whereby differences between regional dialects disappear over time is know as
A-kaolinization
B-dialect leveling
C-linguistics innovation
D-dialect continuum
3-linguistic innovation often spread from one rural area to another, and only later spread out
into the nearby urban centers.
False
4-unlike American English, British English was in origin a colonial variety of the English language.
False
True
6-a language which is used as a means of communication among people who have no native
language in common is called
A-lingua franca
B-colonial language
C-national language
D-official language
7-language planning which decides which role is to be played by which language in a certain
country, is known as status planning.
False
8-the process by which a lingua franca may be subject to simplification and reduction and
reduction is known as
A-Crystallization
B-pidginization
C-creolization
D-decreolization
False
10-where the minority group is less influential and powerless, its language is more likely to gain
official status in the country.
False
B-welsh
C-Catalan
D-Esperanto
true
B- Creole languages are not intellectually simpler than their source languages.
C-unlike pidgin languages, Creole languages are used in a wider range of domains.
D-creole languages are reduced language that have native speakers.
14-the process which attacks the simplification that took place during pidginization is referred to
as
A-pidginization
B-purification
C-decreolization
D-creolization
A-Haitian pidgin
B-Ki tuba
C-Malay
D-Tok Pisin
17-what is the technical term used to describe the process which repairs the reduction which
takes place during pidginization?
A-decreolization
B-transfer
C-creolization
D-Linguistic interference
19-unlike the situation in Canada, language plays a major role in defining ethic groups
membership in multilingual Africa.
False
20-research has found that there might be some inherent connection between the language a
person speaks and his or her ethic group
false
1-It is known from sociolinguistic research in many English-speaking societies that women tend
to use better language forms than men.
True
True
3-Which of the following terms refers to very informal vocabulary words in a certain language.
A-pidgin
B-register
C-slang
D-style
True
5- Research has found that there might be some inherent connection between the language a
person speaks and his or her ethnic group.
TRUE
8--which of the following terms refers solely to differences of pronunciation between two kinds
of language.
A-style
B-dialect
C-register
D-accent
True
11-In English, human sex can be indicated through the use of articles and adjectives
True
12-The following two sentences mean the same thing, but they differ from one another in terms
of their style.
True
13- Both standard and nonstandard varieties of language are structured and role-governed
linguistic systems.
True.
14- The register of science could occur both with formal style or with informal style
False
1- according to Labov study in New York, the usage of non-prevocalic R is correlated with social
class variable.
True
A-grammar
B-pronunciation
C-vocabulary
False
True