Wl-210 (Final Exam Terms) Study Guide
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Heritage language - ANSWER✔✔-- heritage language is the language someone learns at home as a child
which is a minority language in society, but because of growing up in a dominant language, the speaker
seems to be more competent in the latter and feels more comfortable communicating in that language.
Source Text - ANSWER✔✔-- Or source language is the language is which the original text is written in
Target Language - ANSWER✔✔-While the target language is the language in which the final document is
translated into. So basically, the text that is translated into another language, that other language is the
target language
Trot - ANSWER✔✔-- Literal translation of a foreign language.
Fidelity - ANSWER✔✔-- The degree of exactness with which something is copied or reproduced.
Traduttore, traditore - ANSWER✔✔-- Translator, traitor
Sociolinguistics - ANSWER✔✔-- The study of language in relation to social factors including differences of
regional, class and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism.
AAVE - ANSWER✔✔-- African American vernacular English (ebonics). AAVE Is very controversial because
some say it is uneducated. William Labov, he argued that AAVE should not be stigmatized as
substandard, but respected as a variety of English with its own grammatical rules
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Speech communities - ANSWER✔✔-- Speech communities are a group of people sharing a common
language or dialect
Caste - ANSWER✔✔-- A system of social stratification that assigns people to a grouping (caste) by birth.
Castes are hierarchical ordered. Members of a given caste are usually not able to alter their status and
generally marry within their group.
Class - ANSWER✔✔-- The system of ordering a society in which people are divided into sets based on
perceived social or economic status.
William Labov - ANSWER✔✔-- Linguist and studies variations of English spoken, His studies of AAVE
African American vernacular English were also influential, he argued that AAVE should not be stigmatized
as substandard, but respected as a variety of English with its own grammatical rules
Crossover effect - ANSWER✔✔-- Crossover effects in linguistics are restrictions on possible binding found
between certain phrases and pronouns. The phenomenon occurs in English and related languages.
Linguistic insecurity - ANSWER✔✔-- Comprises feelings of anxiety self-consciousness or lack of
confidence in the mind of a speaker surrounding the use of their own language
Principle of linguistic subordination - ANSWER✔✔-- The speech of a socially subordinate group will be
interpreted as linguistically inadequate by comparison with that of the socially dominant group
Standard English - ANSWER✔✔-- Standard English is the variety of English language that is used as the
national norm in an English-speaking country.
Bilingual - ANSWER✔✔-- The ability to speak two languages fluently
Multilingual - ANSWER✔✔-- Having the capability to speak in or use several languages
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