Compares and Contrasts

Question 1

Linguistic competence

Answer 1

system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language.

Question 2

Communicative competence

Answer 2

anguage user’s grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances appropriately.

Question 3

Code switching

Answer 3

when a speaker alternates between two or more languages, or language varieties, in the context of a single conversation

Question 4

Lexical borrowing

Answer 4

ypically is the adoption of individual words or even large sets of vocabulary items from another language or dialect

Question 5

Chicano English

Answer 5

a nonstandard variety of the English language influenced by the Spanish language and spoken as a native dialect

Question 6

Spanglish

Answer 6

a hybrid language combining words and idioms from both Spanish and English,