
Midterm Exam (Language, Culture and Society) V.3
Quiz by Fernand Kevin Dumalay
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It is a structured system comprising of grammar and vocabulary that is used as a tool for communication.
This refers to a group of people who share the same language including words, grammar rules .
This refers to ability of language to cause social action.
This gives the premise that language performs actions when we speak. We are "doing things" not just talking about them.
It refers to the production of sounds and words that make up an utterance and its referential meaning.
It refers to the intended meaning of the utterance or the conventional force that an utterance is understood to have
It refers to the effect achieved by an utterance on the hearer.
This type of illocutionary act represents a state of affairs - stating, describing or telling.
This type of illocutionary act expresses the mental state of the speaker about an event presumed to be true.
Group the following verbs according to the type of illocutions they are classified under.
This is theory suggests that speakers use particular strategies in order to achieve successful communication while effectively upholding positive social values.
Positive politeness strategy is concerned with proceeding towards a goal in the smoothest way and with sensitivity to others.
Politeness Theory is an important branch of semantics developed by Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson.
This politeness strategy is done when then speaker avoid being particular with the concern and relies on the hearer's interpretation.
Which among the choices is NOT a reason for language death?
This word means "coming from a particular place."
The Summer Institute of Linguistics identified 161 languages in the country.
On the 12th of November 1938, the First National Assembly created the National Language Institute, which chose Tagalog to base the national language.
United Nation's approximation of spoken languages around the globe.
In Papua New Guinea, how many languages are known to have no living speakers?
Categorize the following languages according to their origin country.
This refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion or race.
Which is NOT one of the arguments presented by David Crystal on why we should care about languages?
This occurs when a language loses its last native speaker.
This occurs when a language is no longer known, even by the second-language speakers.
Categorize whether the following languages are dead or extinct.
Arta, Binatak and Iguwak are endangered languages in Luzon
Inata, and Korolono are endangered languages in the Visayas.
Manobo Kalamansig and Tigwahanon are endangered languages in Mindanao.
Majority of the world's languages are spoken by indigenous people.
This school of thought presents the idea that there are right and wrong ways of using language whether in terms of speaking or writing.
Prescriptivism is typically used in fields where standard practice is maintained such as in literature.
It is considered as a steady natural language that develops from simplifying and mixing of different languages. It is also considered as an evolved form of a pidgin.
A pidgin can be created by two or more groups of people who speak different languages.
Double negatives are allowed by prescriptivists as long as speakers are able to explain why such expressions occur.
Creoles can also experience natural processes such as linguistic change.
Pidgins are widely spoken in Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon.
A pidgin which never creolized, but it is standardized and used in all domains.
These are exclusionary words that somehow influence our way of thinking for instance, implying that certain roles are for men only.
These words refer to something undesirable linking individuals to anything bad by using terms that are insulting and have negative connotations.
This person is a feminist linguist who is famously known for her book about verbal hygiene.
Verbal Hygiene is an example of descriptivism.
The goal of political correctness is for a language to be more inclusive to avoid excluding, offending or diminishing an individual of any demographic group.
It refers to the attempt to 'cleanse' the language and divest it of its salient, offensive connotations
It is another possible term for politically correct words or expressions.
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