In general, ____ speakers tend to use more prestigious forms than their ____ counterparts with the same social background.
A. female; male
B. male; female
C. foreign; native
D. native; foreign
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Which of the following requests seems to be most intimate between couples at home?
A. Sweetie, the phone.
B. Sean, please answer the phone.
C. Sean, can you answer the phone?
D. Could you please answer the phone?
____________ is defined as any regionally or socially definable human group identified by shared linguistic system.
A speech community
B. A race
C. A society
D. A country
In a speech community people have something in common __________ a language or a particular variety of langauge and rules ofr using it.
A. socially
B. linguistically
C. culturally
D. pragmatically
When a bilingual speaker switches between the two languages concerned, he is converting one mode of thinking into the other.
A. 对
B. 错