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6. A text which tells a story

  • Narrative
  • Phonology
  • Metaphor

7. Name the sentence: The human brain never stops working until you stand up to speak in public

  • Minor
  • Simple
  • Complex
  • Compound

8. Guess the theorist: in traditionally male dominated sphere's of work women tend to adopt masculin speech styles

  • Litosselin
  • Holmes
  • Woods
  • Tannen

9. comes from not indentifying with the institutionalised standard

  • covert prestige
  • overt prestige

10. A sequence of events which happen in the order of when they took place

  • Colloquialism
  • Chronological order
  • Collocation

11. an expression not meant literally

  • Idiom
  • Jargon
  • Genderlect

12. pronoun refers forwards to the referent eg. he walked into the room.

  • Community of practice
  • Cataphoric referencing
  • Discourse structure

13. What are these examples of: thanking, not interupting, complimenting, listening

  • negetive politeness
  • negetive face
  • positive politeness
  • face threatening act

14. the assimilation, mixture and/or eradication of certain dialects, often due to language standardisation, geographical relocation or media influence

  • Discourse structure
  • Dialect levelling
  • Divergence

15. Guess the theorist: lanaguage change happens due to expression, economy, or analogy

  • Labov
  • Giles
  • Deutscher
  • Trugill

16. Idea that middle class speakers use context free, complex forms of language

  • Elaborated code
  • Restricted code

17. The role of English as a bridging language in interactions where it is not everyone's first language

  • international English
  • seccond language
  • lingua franca
  • global English

18. a group of people who share an understanding

  • Community of practice
  • Cataphoric referencing
  • Convergence

19. A liberated suffix or one that has been taken from its origional context and applied to new situations. Considered a creation of it's time.

  • Libfix
  • Affix
  • Suffix
  • Prefix

20. Which of these words has undergone a semantif shift

  • Community charge
  • Tablet
  • Plebgate
  • Sexism