Accent and Dialect

Question 1

Discourse community

Answer 1

A group of people with shared interests or belief systems who are likely to use language in the same way

Question 2

Idiolect

Answer 2

Language use associated with an individual’s speech style

Question 3

Sociolect

Answer 3

Language used by a particular social group

Question 4

Field-specific lexis

Answer 4

Vocabulary that is only related to a particular field of work or activity e.g jargon

Question 5

Accommodation

Answer 5

How people change their speech to match others

Question 6

Divergence

Answer 6

An individual changes their language choices to become more dissimilar to another individual or group

Question 7

Multiple negation

Answer 7

‘I never did nothing’

Question 8

Accent

Answer 8

How people pronounce the words

Question 9

Dialect

Answer 9

How people use vocabulary and grammar

Question 10

Received pronunciation

Answer 10

Recognised as having high social status, does not indicate a person’s geographical location as spoken everywhere

Question 11

Social mobility

Answer 11

The movement from one social class to another e.g changing jobs getting married

Question 12

Sense Relation Networks

Answer 12

There exists a network of interconnected words and phrases in our minds - Carmen Llama

Question 13

Code-switching

Answer 13

Alternating between different languages while talking depending on who you are with

Question 14

Style-shifting

Answer 14

Alternating between different dialects

Question 15

Standard English

Answer 15

Variety used in print, in education and in government and legal contexts