1-An example of a language that has address pronouns, grammatical, and lexical variation

according to the context of the person addressed.

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-when to introduce a new topic in the conversation.

B-where it is possible to interrupt a speaker

c-rules about salience

d-all of the above

4- ………… Is an example of a European minority language which has a history of oppression.

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

B-do you know that person standing over there?

C-who’s that person standing over there?

D-I’ve never seen that person who is standing over there before?

7-is an artificial language with no native language

A-Esperanto

B-Hausa

C-Catalan

D-Swahili

8-consists of structure sequences of different types of utterance ………………

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

10-The language varieties used within a particular speech community is know as

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

13-which of the following countries has four official languages?

A-Belgium

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

15-which of the following is an example of indigenous African lingua fracas

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

19-styles can be characterized through difference in which of the following.

A-grammar

B-pronunciation

C-vocabulary

D-all of the above

20-……. changes from formal to informal according to the context in which the language is used.

A-style
B-dialect

C-context

D-register

1-language planning which focuses on the linguistics characteristics of verities (vocabulary

expansion) is known as status planning.

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

5-in India, the Hindi language operates as an indigenous lingua franca.

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

9-english-based pidgins do not represent bad or inferior forms of English.

False

10-where the minority group is less influential and powerless, its language is more likely to gain
official status in the country.

False

11-which of the following languages is nobody’s native language

A-Malay

B-welsh

C-Catalan

D-Esperanto

12-dialect areas in north America are smaller than those in England

true

13-which of the following statement is false?

A-Creole languages are perfectly normal languages

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

15- A pidgin is a language

A-few lexical items and complex grammatical rules

B-many lexical items and less complex grammatical rules

C-without native speakers

D-with small number of immigrant native speakers

16-what is the most widely spoken English-based pidgin

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

18-creole languages are pidgins that have acquired native speakers

True

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

2-styles can be characterized through difference in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

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

4- Styles can be characterized through difference in grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation

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

6-Terms like dialect and accent are part of

A-The sociolinguistic continuum in a certain geographical area.

B-The style of sociolinguistics

C-The register of sociolinguistics

D-The unintelligible variation of language

7- The term idiolect refers to

A-The unique characteristics of the language of an individual

B-The unique characteristic of women’s speech in a given society

C-the unique characteristics of the language of native speakers

D-the unique characteristics of the language of a particular

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

9- all language varieties are subject to change

True

10-A dialect is a term which can be used to describe

A nonstandard variety of speech

B- A vernacular everyday variety of speech

C- A difficult variety to learn

D- A social or regional variety of speech

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.

A-The old man was penniless

B-the old bloke was broke

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

2-styles can be characterized through difference in which of the following.

A-grammar

B-pronunciation

C-vocabulary

D- all of the above

3-Unlike caste-dialects, social-class dialects are easier to study and described

False

4-sociolinguistic is the study of the relationship between language and society.

True

5-Dutch and German represent two

A-mutually intelligible dialects

B-dialects in the same dialect continuum

C-autonomous varieties of language

D-heteronomous varieties of language