Wk3 inTro To SocioLings

Question 1

What is sociolinguistics? (3)

Answer 1

1. explains why we speak differently in different social contexts (e.g., home, work, school)
2. identifies the social functions of language (eg express annoyance, respect)
3. the ways it is used to convey social meaning (eg girls can call each other b*tches but a man can’t)

Question 2

Why study sociolinguistics?
provides information about how language _____.
the ____ ____ in a _____, and
the way people convey and construct aspects of their ____ ____through their language.

Answer 2

works, social relationships, community, social identity

Question 3

The way we talk is influenced by…….(4)

Answer 3

1. the social context
2. who can hear us
3. where we are talking
4. how we are feeling

Question 4

What can simultaneously convey both information and express feelings?

Answer 4

Utterance

Question 5

What does DEFERANCE mean? Being ‘Deferential’

Answer 5

Being respectful/honorific.

Question 6

‘that bastard Sootbucket’ vs ‘my teacher Mr Sutton’

is an example of….?

Answer 6

Lexical variation

Question 7

‘[wɔːtə]’ vs ‘[wɔːʔə] water’

is an example of….?

Answer 7

Phonetic/phonological variation

Question 8

‘I ain’t seen nothing’ vs ‘I haven’t seen anything’

Is an example of….?

Answer 8

Syntactic variation

Question 9

Suggested reading

Answer 9

Chapter 1: Meyerhoff, Miriam (2011). Introducing Sociolinguistics. London: Routledge

Question 10

An individual’s
particular way of
speaking is called
an ——-

Answer 10

Idiolect

Question 11

Aside from dialect,
some linguists use the
term ___to describe any
variant of a language.

Answer 11

Lect (family lect)

Question 12

Dialectology is a branch
of ___linguistics that
studies the systematic
variants of a language.

Answer 12

socio

Question 13

The term dialect was
first coined in 1577 from
the Latin____, way of
speaking.

Answer 13

dialectus

Question 14

The earliest recorded
instance where dialectal
information played a role in
history appears in the\_\_\_\_, in
the Book of Judges.

Answer 14

Bible

Question 15

The difference between
one areal dialect and
another is often a gradual
series of changes without
gaps is known as dialect
\_\_\_\_.

Answer 15

Continuum

Question 16

Instead of marking the
boundaries of dialects on
maps, linguists often mark
the distribution of various
features with bars called\_\_\_.

Answer 16

isoglosses

Question 17

Upper classes speak
different dialects than the
lower classes. This is
known as social_____.

Answer 17

differentiation