PRELIM EXAMINATION

ENG 302: LANGUAGE CULTURE AND SOCIETY

NAME: _________________________________________ DATE: _________________
COURSE: _________________ SCORE: _______________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Read the following statement and write the letter of your chosen answer on the space provided for each
number.

_____1. An abstract system of symbols and meanings.

A. Language B. Wernicke area C. Broca area D. Language function
_____2. He is an empiricist who believes that one can know only through the senses and experiences.
A. Language B. Wernicke area C. Broca area D. Language function
_____3. It is processed socially when individuals make use of their tongue for interaction.
A. Language B. Wernicke area C. Broca area D. Language function
_____4. He claims that there is so much that we should doubt since much of what we think and believe is not infallible, they may turn
out to be false.
A. Language B. Wernicke area C. Broca area D. Language function
_____5. Refer to the particular individual uses of language in a society.
A. General or micro B. Meta or macro C. Experiential D. Logical
aspects aspects
_____6. Refers to the grammatical choices that enable speakers to make meanings about the world around us and inside us.
A. General or micro B. Meta or macro C. Experiential D. Logical
aspects aspects
_____7. Those systems which set up logical–semantic relationships between one clausal unit and another.
A. General or micro B. Meta or macro C. Experiential D. Logical
aspects aspects
_____8. A function which is capable of describing one or more other functions.
A. General or micro B. Meta or macro C. Experiential D. Logical
aspects aspects
_____9. Allows us to identify an enormous array of objects and events with considerable precision.
A. Physiological B. Phatic C. Recording D. Identifying
_____10. It denotes using language to make a durable record of things that ought to be remembered.
A. Physiological B. Phatic C. Recording D. Identifying
_____11. It helps us negotiate the start and end of exchanges whether in spoken or written form.
A. Physiological B. Phatic C. Recording D. Identifying
_____12. Releasing physical and nervous energy, such as our expression of fear and affection, surprise or our involuntary verbal
reactions to beautiful things.
A. Physiological B. Phatic C. Recording D. Identifying
_____13. The relation of language to the verbal and nonverbal situational environment.
A. Textual B. Pleasure functions C. Communicating D. Reasoning
_____14. Language allows us to derive pleasure from it.
A. Textual B. Pleasure functions C. Communicating D. Reasoning
_____15. Requesting, apologizing, informing, ordering as well as promising and refusing are all reasons for our ideas.
A. Textual B. Pleasure functions C. Communicating D. Reasoning
_____16. A tool of thought, before we say something, we think and to do that we necessarily use language.
A. Textual B. Pleasure functions C. Communicating D. Reasoning
_____17. It is a set of beliefs, values, norms, customs, traditions, rituals, and a way of life that differentiates one group from another.
A. Ideational B. Interpersonal C. Culture D. Identity
function
_____18. Norton defines “How people understand their relationship to the outside world, how that relationship is constructed across
time and space, and how people understand their possibilities for the future”
A. Ideational B. Interpersonal C. Culture D. Identity
function
_____19. We use language to interact with others, to establish and maintain relations with them, to please them, to anger them, and
influence their behavior, to get their help or sympathy.
A. Ideational B. Interpersonal C. Culture D. Identity
function
_____20. The content function of language and allows us to conceptualize the world for our own benefit and that of others
A. Ideational B. Interpersonal C. Culture D. Identity
function
_____21. A variety of a language.
A. Dialect B. Social Dialects C. Regional Dialects D. Polyglot
_____22. A variety of language that reflects social variation in language use, according to certain factors related to the social group of
the speaker such as education, occupation, income level etc.
A. Dialect B. Social Dialects C. Regional Dialects D. Polyglot
_____23. A multilingual person is generally referred to as_____.
A. Dialect B. Social Dialects C. Regional Dialects D. Polyglot
_____24. It is one who can communicate in more than one language, be it actively (through speaking, writing, or signing) or passively
(Through listening, reading, or perceiving).
A. Dialect B. Multilingual Person C. Multilingualism D. Polyglot
_____25. The act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers.
A. Dialect B. Multilingual Person C. Multilingualism D. Polyglot

II. IDENTIFICATION
Direction: Read and identify the following level of identification that are conveyed by the means of language: Write
your answer on the space provided before each number. (2points each)

______________________________1. The identifying cohesive element here is the sharing of technical and special
languages, of jargon that is not familiar to the community at large.
______________________________2. The words that teenagers use is very distinct from what the older generations
might use. Teen speaks is very good marker of identity for teenagers. Similarly,
adults and elderly people use words that teenagers wouldn't usually use, so they
would be markers of identity for adults.
______________________________3. In all societies the ‘proper’ way for women to speak is different from that for
men, a difference that sometimes goes as far as to the methodical use of a special
vocabulary and of different syntactical structures.
______________________________4. the ethnic and/or regional one, that for historical reasons play a significant role
and on which we will dwell shortly.
______________________________5. The expressions we use when speaking to others always reflect the status
relationship between ‘them’ and ‘us’; close, friendly relations or formal reserve,
respect and deference require different forms of exchange.

III. ENUMERATION
Direction: Enumerate the following. In any order

FACTORS AFFECTING SOCIAL DIALECT FIVE LANGUAGE REGISTERS

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IV. ESSAY
Explain the Relationship between Language, Culture and Identity

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Prepared by:
ZERHAN S. LAARIN
English instructor