VI people and texts
The author of 'The Tempest' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Who is William Shakespeare?
The invaders of England from the Scandinavian region
Who are the Vikings?
The name of the circles which denote countries where English is spoken as a native, second and foreign language.
What is Kachru's Circles?
The word denoting the process of taking a word from another language and inserting it into one's own language; e.g. cappuccino
What is borrowing?
A gem made of carbon
What is a diamond?
The oldest surviving long text written in English; it tells the tale of a warrior and a monster.
What is Beowulf?
The period of time which saw a great phonological change in the speaking of English language
What was the Great Vowel Shift?
An ethnolect spoken within Australia
What is Aboriginal English?
The ability to move between two or more languages within a single conversation; often within a single sentence
What is code switching?
The author of 'A Brief History of Time'
Who is Stephen Hawking?
The English king who moved his court to London; thereby promoting the London Dialect as the Standard.
Who is King Henry IV?
The language other than English which gave the English language names for animal meat
What is French?
A 1st person, inclusive pronoun which literally translates to "me and all of you" - found in Bislama and Tok Pisin creoeles
What is yumipela?
The process of the rudimentary language developing into a creole; spoken more widely and by a child generation
What is depidginisation?
The surnames of the last five Presidents of America (inclusive of the current President)
Who are Trump, Obama, Bush Jr, Clinton and Bush Sr?
Some of the oldest English writing is found in these text forms, often stored in wealthy households.
What are recipe books?
The two universities which influenced the London Dialect as the standard
What are Oxford and Cambridge?
The umbrella term to describe various languages of languages dying out for many reasons, some of which include no child speakers, a dominant language, no education program for the language
What is language endangerment?
The word denoting a common language between a group of people
What is a Lingua Franca?
The country that political party Fianna Fail is from
What is Ireland?
The author writing in the early modern English period; he penned 'Great Expectations'
Who is Charles Dickens?
The 7 most common ways of word addition to the English language
What are compounding, blending, acronyms, initialisms, affixation, borrowing and neologism?
One theorises that language provides a filter on one's reality; the other theorises that language alters one's perception of life and worldview
What are linguistic relativism and linguistic determinism?
The word denoting the process of creating a dictionary for a language
What is codification/what is codifying?
February 21st is the international celebration of the day
When is 'National Mother Tongue' Day?