chapter 7 chapter5 quiz new

I. Directions: Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets

1．We use the word mother in formal English and mom in colloquial English, this refers to the ___ meaning of language.

A. connotative

B. social

C. affective

D. reflected

2. The word “fast” can be associated with other words and these associations have different meanings. This is called the ___ meaning.

A.connotative

B. associative

C. affective

D. collocative

3. “John married a blond heiress.” _______ “John married a blond.”

A. is synonymous with

B. is inconsistent with

C. entails

D. presupposes

4. In general, women’s langua ge tends to be more______.

5. The language of females is characterized by using

__________.

II．Decide whether each of the following statements is true or false:

1. Sociolinguistics is the sub-discipline of linguistics that studies social contexts.

2. Language use varies from one speech community to another, from one regional group to another, from one social group to another, and even from one individual to another.

3. A person’s social backgrounds do not exert a shaping influence on his choice of linguistic features.

4. Every speaker of a language is, in a stricter sense, a speaker

of a distinct idiolect.

5. The major difference between a pidgin and a creole is that the former usually has its native speakers while the latter doesn’t.

6. Bilingualism and diglossia mean the same thing.

7. Black English is the widespread and familiar ethnic variety of

the English language.

8. Idiolect is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that

combines aspects of all the elements regarding regional, social and stylistic variation.

9. Sense and reference are two terms often encountered in the

study of meaning. They are two related but different aspects of meaning.

10. There are generally three kinds of sense relations, namely, sameness relation, oppositeness relation and inclusiveness relation.

III. Define the following terms

1. Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

2. Semantics

3. Culture

4. Sociolinguistics

5.Register

6．The Referential Theory

IV. Answer the following questions.

1. What’s the theory of context of situation?

2. Why do we say that a meaning of a sentence is not the sum

total of the meaning of all its components?

3. What is dialect? And how many dialects are there?