VU Midterm Past Papers
60 solved midterm past paper MCQs for ENG510 (Sociolinguistics) at Virtual University, each with the correct answer marked. Use them to learn the VU question style and test your recall. An independent study tool — not affiliated with VU.
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Q1. Sociology of language is the study of the relations between language and ____
Q2. In sociolinguistics, ___ approach that is based on facts collected in a systematic way as part of research or simply based on one's own experience?
Q3. Groups and communities are ever. their boundaries are often porous, and internal relationships shift
Q4. Sociolinguistics has long been involved in uncovering how language and ___ interact with and influence each other in a complex and rich dynamics.
Q5. This relationship between sociolinguistic phenomena and a real and familiar world be understood in isolation.
Q6. In sociolinguistics, a variety is also called a -
Q7. Language usually entail to the speakers of the particular language or dialect.
Q8. Who is regarded as the founder of sociolinguistics?
Q9. An individual also has a that is, he or she controls a number of varieties of a language or of two or more languages.
Q10. Urbanization is a great of linguistic frontiers.
Q11. A trade language widely spoken as a non-native language is known as.
Q12. In sociolinguistics, language is a general term for any distinctive form of a language or linguistic expression.
Q13. Sociolinguistics is the ____study of the effect of any and all aspects of society.
Q14. Speech community is a concept in ____ that describes a distinct group of people who use language in a unique and mutually accepted way among themselves.
Q15. According to the Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992). there are two broad types of language .
Q16. What does sociology of language focus on?
Q17. Which of the following variations in sociolinguistics focuses on a language without reference to its earlier or later stages?
Q18. How many types of languages are spoken in Baluchistan?
Q19. Which of the following linguistics looks at language in specific culture and the way it is affected?
Q20. The scientific study of linguistic dialect is called
Q21. B between language’ and ‘dialect’ is an influence of culture
Q22. B dialectology comes from Greek SidAextog, dislektos which means, . and -Aoyia, -"logia" that means scientific study
Q23. TT of function and acceptance.
Q24. in Europe
Q25. Which of the following variations deals with language change over time?
Q26. British sociolinguist Robert Le Page is famous for his studies of variation in communities in the Caribbean and Britain.
Q27. B and social interaction have ____ relationship.
Q28. Diagram based on the Wave model was originally presented by :
Q29. The term dialectology comes from Greek dlaAekTog, dialektos which means ; and -Aoyiaq, -"logia" that means scientific study.
Q30. The term dialectology comes from Greek dialektos which means ; and -logia that means scientific study.
Q31. Which of the following sociolinguists has written extensively on the internal, social, cognitive and cultural principles which drive linguistic change?
Q32. The speech habits peculiar to a particular person is known as a/an ;
Q33. In sociolinguistics, dialect is a variety of speech associated with a particular social class or occupational group within a society.
Q34. The allows a very important prediction to be made regarding isoglosses, namely that they should not intersect.
Q35. Trudgill examined the spread of innovative variants in Swedish and the spread of uvular r in Europe.
Q36. Distinction between ‘language’ and ‘dialect’ is an influence of culture.
Q37. Which model was originally used to describe the diffusion of non-linguistic innovations?
Q38. The British sociolinguist Robert Le Page is famous for his studies of variation in communities in the Caribbean and Britain.
Q39. Which of the following languages is used in district Hazara?
Q40. Which of the following is the language used by the people of a specific area, class, district, or any other group of people?
Q41. A typical standard language passes through the processes of selection, codification ____ of function and acceptance.
Q42. Which of the following is the result of a direct and deliberate intervention by society?
Q43. Old English, referred to young men and women both.
Q44. A regional dialect is a distinct form of a language spoken in a particular area.
Q45. Language and social interaction have ______ relationship.
Q46. In Old English, ______ referred to young men and women both.
Q47. There is evidence that language attitudes influence change.
Q48. A speech community does not have the same boundaries or extent in space, time, or meaning with a .
Q49. B dialectology comes from Greek διάλεκτος, dialektos which means, . and -λογία, -"logia" that means scientific study
Q50. Who proposed the notion of 'Linguistic competence'?
Q51. What is a cliché?
Q52. Slang is very language or words used by a particular group of people.
Q53. The knowledge and ability to use language appropriately in any given social context is known as
Q54. Which of the following linguists was an American anthropologist and a leader in structural linguistics?
Q55. Lakoff has summarized politeness in ___ maxims.
Q56. Nonstandard English consists predominately of what type of words?
Q57. English that follows set rules regarding how the language should be used is called
Q58. Brown and Levinson outline main types of politeness strategies.
Q59. The concept that the structure of a language affects its speakers' world view or cognition is called .
Q60. Linguicism is similar to