I. Multiple Choice:

1. The term ______ is the label given to the form of a language used by any group of speakers or used in a particular field.

A. variety B. register C. dialect D. Creole

2. ______ is/are used most widely in a community.

A. Sociolects B. regional dialects

C. The standard variety D. Registers

3. ______ is a variety of a language spoken by people living in an area.

A. A social dialect B. A regional dialect

C. The standard variety D. A functional variety

4. British English, American English, Australian English, Indian English, etc. are all ______.

A. social dialects B. geographical dialects

C. registers D. the standard variety

5. The term ______ is used for less drastic difference which is restricted to variation in pronunciation.

A. sociolect B. dialect

B. geographical dialect D. accent

6. The pioneering investigation done by William Labov in New York City in 1966 was to test ______ among different groups of speakers.

A. sociolects B. registers

C. regional dialects D. accents

7. ______ is a term widely used in sociolinguistics to refer to varieties according to use.

A. Register B. Dialect C. Tenor D. Variety

8. ______ is concerned with the purpose and subject-matter of communications.

A. Tenor B. Register C. Mode D. Field

9. ______ is related to how we communicate, through speech or writing.

A. Field B. Register C. Mode D. Tenor

10. ______ depends on the relations between the participants.

A. Field B. Register C. Mode D. Tenor

11. Sodium Chloride and salt, which denote the same substance, differ in ______ of communication.

A. Field B. Register C. Mode D. Tenor

12. ______ is used between family members and very close friends.

A. The consultative style B. The casual style

C. The intimate style D. The formal style

13. ______ exists in the Quebec Province, Canada.

A. Pidgin B. Multilingualism

C. Creole D. Bilingualism

14. ______ refers to the fact that a speaker changes from one language to the other in different situations or when talking about different topics.

A. Bilingualism B. Code-mixing

C. Code-switching D. Pidgin

15. _____ is an expression that substitutes one which may be seen as offensive or disturbing to the addressee.

A. Taboo B. Euphemism

C. Implicature D. An indirect illocution

16. The fact that Eskimos has seven words for different types of snow but there is not a single word equivalent to snow supports the idea of ______.

A. linguistic determinism

B. linguistic relativism

C. different cognitive capacities of different people

D. different linguistic capacities of different people

II. Answer the following questions:

1. How do you distinguish linguistic competence to communicative competence?

2. What is the main idea of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis?

3. How do you distinguish Pidgin from Creole?

4. What is the difference between dialect and accent?