Hi
Could someone help me please?
Some hints? Answers?
here are the questions from my exam.
do you find them difficult?
1. What does the term style refer to? In what contexts is it used?
2. What are Labov's examples which describe the substratum effect? (Italian and Jewish minority in the US)
3. What are the 2 theories of origin of AAVE?
4. Usage of more formal and more correct forms among the speakers in Norwich?
5. The example of shop-assistants in NY, what does it tell us?
6. Elements of Gaelic in Scots English + examples.
7. The modern usage of collective noun they instead of a masculine universal form he. What does it tell us about the influence of social and sexual policy on a particular language?
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1. dialect continuum
2. number of languages in the world is easy to determine. comment!
3. variants of /r/ pronunciation in labov's new york study
4. sapir-whorf hypothesis
5. linguistic situation in greece (diglossia)
6. grammatical features of AAVE
7. differences between pidgins and creoles
8. a bilingual person has an equal command of the two languages. comment!
9. usage of Miss/Mrs (sexism and discrimination against women in English)
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thanks
Could someone help me please?
Some hints? Answers?
here are the questions from my exam.
do you find them difficult?
1. What does the term style refer to? In what contexts is it used?
2. What are Labov's examples which describe the substratum effect? (Italian and Jewish minority in the US)
3. What are the 2 theories of origin of AAVE?
4. Usage of more formal and more correct forms among the speakers in Norwich?
5. The example of shop-assistants in NY, what does it tell us?
6. Elements of Gaelic in Scots English + examples.
7. The modern usage of collective noun they instead of a masculine universal form he. What does it tell us about the influence of social and sexual policy on a particular language?
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1. dialect continuum
2. number of languages in the world is easy to determine. comment!
3. variants of /r/ pronunciation in labov's new york study
4. sapir-whorf hypothesis
5. linguistic situation in greece (diglossia)
6. grammatical features of AAVE
7. differences between pidgins and creoles
8. a bilingual person has an equal command of the two languages. comment!
9. usage of Miss/Mrs (sexism and discrimination against women in English)
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thanks