TEST FORMAT ON
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
DFL
SGU

Limited Contents

Units 1 - 9
The final test is composed of two parts 1 and
2.
Part 1: Gap-filling
Part 2: True-false answer

Part 1: Choose a correct word to complete
each of the following sentences (4 pts/0.2
each)
20 sentences
1. Sociolinguistics is a …… that yokes sociology
with linguistics.
2. Every society has linguistic codes
acceptable for ……. and interaction.
3. Language by its nature is totally a social
…….
4. Sociolinguistics has to do with …. use and a
society's response to it.

5. Every language speaker utters words with
some kind of ….. which can tell the listeners
where the speaker is from.
6. Accent is the way of …… words showing
which country the speaker is from.
7. Accent is frequently confused with ….
8. Dialect denotes aspects of … together with
words and syntax slightly different from the
standard.
9. Diglossia refers to a situation in which two …..
are used by a single language community.
10. Factors influencing language change are ….

Part 2: State if the statements are True or
False ( 6 pts/0.2 each)
30 sentences
1. Spoken language is organized more
carefully than written language.
2. The focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of
society on the language.
3. The components of a speech event are
setting, participants, ends, act sequences, key,
instrumentalities, norms and genre.
4. Sociolinguistics is a discipline that yokes
society with linguistics.

5. A pidgin, or a contact language, is a mixture
of two other languages, created usually
because of trading purposes between
peoples who do not share a common means of
communication.
6. Pidgin is the next stage of development for
Creole with different grammatical features.
7. Creolisation and decreolisation are two
processes stimulating further change of a
language.
8. The written variety presupposes the
presence of the interlocutor.

9. The written language is able to live with the
idea it expresses.
10. Speech acts and speech events relate to
grammatical performance in society.

Good luck!