Language varieties

Question 1

style

Answer 1

formal or informal

Question 2

sets of language items associated with discrete occupational or social groups. a linguistic repertoire that is associated, culture internally, with particular practices and persons

Answer 2

register

Question 3

examples of register

Answer 3

legalese, gamers, etc

Question 4

the notion that focuses on text type not social situation. can act as a template for communicating certain kinds of knowledge and experience

Answer 4

genre

Question 5

examples of genre

Answer 5

recipes, newspaper articles, personal ads

Question 6

superordinate category and standard variety

Answer 6

language

Question 7

subordinate category and nonstandard variety

Answer 7

dialect

Question 8

the standardization process

Answer 8

choose a norm, idealize it, becomes prestigious, creates community and separates others

Question 9

gradual change as you move through a wide area

Answer 9

dialect continuum

Question 10

different aspects of the sound system

Answer 10

variables

Question 11

drawn boundaries around a variable

Answer 11

isogloss

Question 12

occurs where severe isoglosses coincide

Answer 12

dialect boundary

Question 13

all members in an assigned category share traits that are the essence of that category

Answer 13

essentialism

Question 14

linguistic boundaries of speech community

Answer 14

group of individuals who share the same language, dialect, code, etc

Question 15

linguistic norms of speech community

Answer 15

group of speakers who share some kind of common feeling about linguistic behavior in that community

Question 16

people who come together for some common endeavor

Answer 16

communities of practice

Question 17

dense network

Answer 17

the people A interacts with also interact with each other

Question 18

loose network

Answer 18

the people A interacts with only interact with A, not with each other

Question 19

multiplex

Answer 19

network in which people in it are tied together in more than one way, like going to a bar and playing softball

Question 20

how to have strong social cohesion, solidarity, and enforce norms?

Answer 20

dense, multiplex networks