Sociolinguistics of the English Language: Exam Questions and Terms, Exámenes de Idioma Inglés

¡Descarga Sociolinguistics of the English Language: Exam Questions and Terms y más Exámenes en PDF de Idioma Inglés solo en Docsity! Model exam Sociolingüística de la Lengua Inglesa Grado en Estudios Ingleses NO ESTÁ PERMITIDO EL USO DE NINGÚN MATERIAL 1. Choose two of the following issues and explain them in your own words. Write around 100 words for each of the two questions. a) European Union Language Planning and Policy. b) The sociolinguistic situation in Canada. c) “Register” as a variable in Sociolinguistics. 2. Define the following six terms taken from the glossary. Provide brief definitions of no more than 60 words each. Provide examples. a) Corpus planning b) Minority Language c) Language attrition d) Mesolect e) Turn-taking f) Lingua franca 3. Comment, from a sociolinguistic point of view, on the following excerpt. You are expected to relate this extract to the contents of the subject in no more than 300 words. Language planning is an attempt to interfere deliberately with a language or one of its varieties: it is human intervention into natural processes of language change, diffusion, and erosion. That attempt may focus on either its status with regard to some other language or variety or its internal condition with a view to changing that condition, or on both of these since they are not mutually exclusive. The first focus results in status planning, the second results in corpus planning. Status planning changes the function of a language or a variety of a language and the rights of those who use it. For example, when speakers of a minority language are denied the use of that language in educating their children, their language has no status. Alternatively, when a government declares that henceforth two languages rather than one of these alone will be officially recognized in all functions, the newly recognized one has gained status. Status itself is a relative concept; it may also be improved or reduced by degrees, and usually is.[…] Corpus planning seeks to develop a variety of a language or a language, usually to standardize it, that is, to provide it with the means for serving every possible language function in society […]. Consequently, corpus planning may involve such matters as the development of an orthography, new sources of vocabulary, dictionaries, and a literature, together with the deliberate cultivation of new uses so that the language may extend its use into such areas as government, education, and trade. Corpus planning has been particularly important in countries like Indonesia, Israel, Finland, India, Pakistan, and Papua New Guinea. […] Wardhaugh (2002: 353)