SOCIOLINGUISTICS
_________ deal with comparative studies among language, language families, and language development.
Macro linguistics
What is Linguistics?
The scientific study of human language.
What is a multilingual?
a person who knows and uses three or more languages
What is dialects?
A language variety, spoken by a speech community, characterized by systematic features that distinguish it from other varieties of that same language.
An umbrella term which covers a variety of different interests in language and society, including the social functions of language and the social characteristics of its users.
Sociolinguistics
Phonetics and phonology refers to ____________
the sounds and the sound system of patterns.
Typical interactions that occurs in everyday life are called _________
Domains
Regional/Geographical dialects
When two or more people communicate with each other in speech we can call the system of communication that they employ ____
A code
If Morphology is the structure of words, Syntax?
the structure of phrases and sentences
Some people value it and believe that it is the best way to express their feelings because it is the language they use everyday. This refers to _______
attitude towards H and L variety
Language users and the message that has come into being in the time dimension.
Temporal dialects
What language people choose to speak is determined by several social factors. There are _________
Participants, Setting, Topic and Function
The study of organs such as tongue and larynx and their functions in the production of speech.
Phonetics
What is polyglot films?
the presence of two or more languages at the level of dialogue and narrative
Accents differ in two subjects, __________
Phonetic and phonological
Area of sociolinguistic study which concentrates on the use of a variety and its social significance.
Macrosociolinguistics
Denotation of words, sense relations between words such as antonymy and synonymy.
The term Idiolect was coined by
a linguist, Bernard Bloch