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Midterm Test
‘Sociolinguistics’
Elaborate possible explanations for the following problems.
1.
What are the roles of social aspects in
sociolinguistics and how do they correlate with the definition of
sociolinguistics?
2.
Jokowi and Prabowo are now competing for being the
president. They approach certain speech communities to get more supports.
Provide illustrations for the functions of accommodation theories applied by
the two candidates.
3.
Do you think Indonesian has standard and non
standard dialects? Explain and provide examples!
4.
What is meant by speech community? How is it
formed? Provide examples!
5.
Interpret with your words, what is meant by ‘internally,
a community must have certain social cohesiveness; externally, its members
should find themselves cut off from other communities in certain ways’?
6.
How register differs from social dialect in terms
of the content? Provide examples!
7.
What is Labov’s idea dealing with style? How does
it differ from other linguists in terms of defining what style is?
8.
What is the difference between style in
sociolinguistics and stylistics?
9.
How can code refer to language?
10. Provide
an illustration of the occurrence of code switching! (situation and the sample
of the code switching that occurs).
Good Luck
P. S :
Late submission as well as ‘friendship – solidarity - cheating’ lead to disqualification
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