Language diversity and change (AQA A-Level English Language) quiz
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What is the difference between an accent and a dialect?
Whose Norwich study found that working-class men favoured non-standard forms, showing covert prestige?
A group with shared goals, agreed terminology and recognised ways of communicating is called a:
Which pair of researchers analysed institutional talk as goal-oriented and often asymmetrical?
The change of meaning by which mouse came to include a computer device is an example of:
Which factor most directly drove the standardisation of English spelling?
Which stance describes how language is actually used, without ranking varieties as correct or incorrect?
Which of these is one of Jean Aitchison's metaphors for attitudes to language change?
The model that shows language change spreading outward from a centre and weakening with distance is the:
Halliday's functional theory explains the appearance of new words mainly as: