Ling 115 Midterm 1
Jargon - correct answer ✔✔Special vocabulary used in a particular field
Slang - correct answer ✔✔Informal vocabulary, often not found in dictionaries but used in daily life
Language - correct answer ✔✔A standard variety used by people in a country
Style - correct answer ✔✔Speech used for a particular activity or a particular social setting
Register - correct answer ✔✔Ways of speaking depending on formality, age group, social status, etc.
Accent - correct answer ✔✔A distinctive way of pronouncing a language
Dialect - correct answer ✔✔A variety used by people in a particular region or in a particular social group
Idiolect - correct answer ✔✔the speech habits particular to a particular person
Singlish is an example of - correct answer ✔✔Pidgin/Creoles
Hypotheses to identify the term "language" - correct answer ✔✔1) same vocabulary, grammar
2) mutual intelligibility: if 2 can understand each other, they speak the same language
Dialect Continuum - correct answer ✔✔Dialects spreading into one another w/o clear boundaries
2 types of language selection - correct answer ✔✔1) deliberate: government
2) natural
, 4 factors influencing style/language choice - correct answer ✔✔Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
Linguistic Repertoire - correct answer ✔✔A range of different languages or varieties of a language
spoken by a speaker of a community signifying particular social rules
Extended Diglossia - correct answer ✔✔A situation in which each of the 2 different varieties of a
particular language spoken by the speakers of a community signifies a particular social role
Code Switching - correct answer ✔✔The use of different languages or varieties of a language in a single
conversation in general
Code Mixing - correct answer ✔✔The use of different languages or varieties of a language in a single
sentence, within clause boundaries
Diglossia - correct answer ✔✔A situation in which each of the 2 different languages spoken by the
speakers of a community signifies a particular social role
Bilingualism - correct answer ✔✔A situation where a speaker is able to speak 2 languages
Borrowing - correct answer ✔✔A situation where vocabulary items of a language is adapted into
another language
4 Types of Code-Switching - correct answer ✔✔0: switching language in conversation, varies by sentence
1: Extra-sentential, same sentence, tags
2: Inter-sentential, clause switch
3: Intra-sentential, code-mixing
Jargon - correct answer ✔✔Special vocabulary used in a particular field
Slang - correct answer ✔✔Informal vocabulary, often not found in dictionaries but used in daily life
Language - correct answer ✔✔A standard variety used by people in a country
Style - correct answer ✔✔Speech used for a particular activity or a particular social setting
Register - correct answer ✔✔Ways of speaking depending on formality, age group, social status, etc.
Accent - correct answer ✔✔A distinctive way of pronouncing a language
Dialect - correct answer ✔✔A variety used by people in a particular region or in a particular social group
Idiolect - correct answer ✔✔the speech habits particular to a particular person
Singlish is an example of - correct answer ✔✔Pidgin/Creoles
Hypotheses to identify the term "language" - correct answer ✔✔1) same vocabulary, grammar
2) mutual intelligibility: if 2 can understand each other, they speak the same language
Dialect Continuum - correct answer ✔✔Dialects spreading into one another w/o clear boundaries
2 types of language selection - correct answer ✔✔1) deliberate: government
2) natural
, 4 factors influencing style/language choice - correct answer ✔✔Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
Linguistic Repertoire - correct answer ✔✔A range of different languages or varieties of a language
spoken by a speaker of a community signifying particular social rules
Extended Diglossia - correct answer ✔✔A situation in which each of the 2 different varieties of a
particular language spoken by the speakers of a community signifies a particular social role
Code Switching - correct answer ✔✔The use of different languages or varieties of a language in a single
conversation in general
Code Mixing - correct answer ✔✔The use of different languages or varieties of a language in a single
sentence, within clause boundaries
Diglossia - correct answer ✔✔A situation in which each of the 2 different languages spoken by the
speakers of a community signifies a particular social role
Bilingualism - correct answer ✔✔A situation where a speaker is able to speak 2 languages
Borrowing - correct answer ✔✔A situation where vocabulary items of a language is adapted into
another language
4 Types of Code-Switching - correct answer ✔✔0: switching language in conversation, varies by sentence
1: Extra-sentential, same sentence, tags
2: Inter-sentential, clause switch
3: Intra-sentential, code-mixing
