Sociolinguistics

Question 1

standard language

Answer 1

conventionally accepted variety, upheld through planning

Question 2

corpus planning

Answer 2

planning the ‘language’ itself (e.g. preparing dictionaries, teaching,)

Question 3

status planning

Answer 3

shaping ideologies about language in order to encourage particular language practices within a given population

Question 4

diglossia

Answer 4

the coexistence of 2+ languages in a hierarchical relationship

Question 5

pidgin

Answer 5

the result of contact between multiple languages, usually in a diglossic situation (e.g. through colonisation)

Question 6

creole

Answer 6

the intergenerational transmission of a pidgin as a user’s first language

Question 7

transactional function

Answer 7

language used to give specific information or detail

Question 8

interactional function

Answer 8

language used emotionally, without info or necessary transaction (e.g. pleasantries)

Question 9

intra-speaker variation

Answer 9

variation within a user’s repertoire

Question 10

(intra-speaker variation)
mode

Answer 10

channel of language (written, spoken; internet, books, podcast)

Question 11

(intra-speaker variation)
field

Answer 11

topics/fields associated with different aspects of language

Question 12

(intra-speaker variation)
style

Answer 12

social values attributed to varieties of language

Question 13

inter-speaker variation

Answer 13

variation between multiple users of a given language: geography, age, social class, ethnicity, gender

Question 14

les français régionaux vs. les langues régionales

Answer 14

dialects of french vs. separate languages such as Breton

Question 15

age grading

Answer 15

a speaker’s language evolves as they get older (without overall substantial change in the community, age is key factor for individual). Rapid acquisition at first, and much less so after retirement