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1、语言学第8章精品文档DecidewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse: 1.Sociolinguisticsisthesub-disciplineoflinguisticsthatstudiessocialcontexts.F2.Languageasameansofsocialcommunicationisahomogeneoussystemwithahomogeneousgroupofspeakers.F 3.Languageusevariesfromonespeechcommunitytoanother,fromoneregio

2、nalgrouptoanother,fromonesocialgrouptoanother,andevenfromoneindividualtoanother.T 4.Thegoalofsociolinguisticsistoexplorethenatureoflanguagevariationandlanguageuseamongavarietyofspeechcommunitiesandindifferentsocialsituations.T 5.Thelinguisticmarkersthatcharacterizeindividualsocialgroupsmayserveasso

3、cialmarkersofgroupmembership.T 6.Fromthesociolinguisticperspective,theterm“speechvariety”cannotbeusedtorefertostandardlanguage,vernacularlanguage,dialectorpidgin.F 7.Functionalspeechvarietiesareknownasregionaldialects.F 8.Themostdistinguishablelinguisticfeatureofaregionaldialectisitsgrammaranduseso

4、fvocabulary.F 9.Geographicalbarriersaretheonlysourceofregionalvariationoflanguage.F 10.Aperson’ssocialbackgroundsdonotexertashapinginfluenceonhischoiceoflinguisticfeatures.F 11.Twospeakersofthesamelanguageordialectusetheirlanguageordialectinthesameway.F 12.Everyspeakerofalanguageis,inastrictersense

5、,aspeakerofadistinctidiolect.T 13.Thestandardlanguageisabetterlanguagethannonstandardlanguages.F 14.Alinguafrancacanonlybeusedwithinaparticularcountryforcommunicationamonggroupsofpeoplewithdifferentlinguisticbackgrounds.F 15.Pidginsarelinguisticallyinferiortostandardlanguages.F 16.Apidginusuallyref

6、lectstheinfluenceofthehigher,ordominant,languageinitslexiconandthatofthelowerlanguageintheirphonologyandoccasionallysyntax.T 17.Themajordifferencebetweenapidginandacreoleisthattheformerusuallyhasitsnativespeakerswhilethelatterdoesn’t.F 18.Bilingualismanddiglossiameanthesamething.F 19.Thekindofnameo

7、rtermspeakersusetocallorrefertosomeonemayindicatesomethingoftheirsocialrelationshiptoorpersonalfeelingsaboutthatindividual.T 20.Theuseofeuphemismshastheeffectofremovingderogatoryovertonesandthedisassociativ