sociolingustics

Question 1

what is a descriptive approach?

Answer 1

interested in describing language: how people really speak/use language

Question 2

what is the prescriptive approach

Answer 2

based on med look at person and tell them how they should speak (implied it’s wrong)

Question 3

what is accent?

Answer 3

differences at pronunciation level only (phonetics/ phonology/ prosody

Question 4

what is dialect?

Answer 4

differences in more than pronunciation (e.g. morphology/ lexis/ syntax)

Question 5

variations in t-glottalisations, h-dropping what is affected

Answer 5

P+P

Question 6

variation in ______ with words like barm,cob,roll or cool/sick terms of affection love duck

Answer 6

lexis

Question 7

can either add or take away plural markers after measure nouns yous- 2 pound (s) of rice. what level is affected by this variation?

Answer 7

morphological

Question 8

double objection (diatransitive construction: i gave him it/i gave it to him/i gave it him affects what level?

Answer 8

syntax

Question 9

omitting articles and prepositions e.g i’m just going the (to) shop is variation at what level?

Answer 9

syntax

Question 10

tag questions affects which level of socioloinggustics? e.g. He’s friendly, isn’t he?
He’s friendly, ain’t he?

Answer 10

discorse

Question 11

sociolinguists are interested

Answer 11

in accounting for such variability

Examining relationships between this variation and social factors