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  • Created on: 05-06-11 20:49

1. If the Prime Minister was talking to a member of the public with a regional dialect, what might he use?

  • Downward Convergence
  • Upward Convergence
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2. Your speech is personal to your upbringing, social class, gender, friendship groups and more.

  • Personal speech
  • Broadcast
  • Private
  • Idiolect
  • Dialect

3. Accent is only your pronunciation of words, not the vocabulary.

  • True
  • False

4. What is Standard English?

  • Chat up lines
  • Colloquial Language
  • Language of no specific dialect
  • The same thing as RP
  • A northern sociolect

5. What is register?

  • The audience
  • Levels of formality
  • Genre
  • A purpose
  • Type of discourse
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