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
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
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