ENG201: Final Exam Questions All Answered Correct 2025/2026 Updated.

linguistic anthropology - Answer the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life sociolinguistics - Answer the study of language in relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism phonetics - Answer the study and classification of speech sounds morphology - Answer the study of the forms of words syntax - Answer the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language semantics - Answer the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text pragmatics - Answer subfield of linguistics that studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning genderlect - Answer a variety of speech associated with a particular gender hedge, hedging - Answer a verbal form that makes a stance less clear or firm or indicates a speaker's hesitancy backchanneling; back-channel response - Answer response from a listener which indicates that she is paying attention to the speaker (eg: yeah, right, mm, hmm) features of women's language (lakoff) - Answer hedging, politeness, tag questions, emotions, empty adjectives, hypercorrect grammar and pronunciation, lack of humor, direct quotations, extended vocabulary, declarations w/ interrogative intonation, bachkchanneling, cooperative rather than competitive, maintain relations rather than status, role of narrow and broad context/culture powerful and powerless language - Answer powerful: high social status, well-educated, professional powerless: subordinate, lower social status, unemployed