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nAmlBIA UnlVERSITY
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTYOF COMMERCEH, UMANSCIENCEAND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BENL
LEVEL: 5
COURSE CODE: ILSSllS
COURSE NAME: INTRODUCTIONTO LANGUAGE
IN SOCIETY
SESSION: JUNE 2024
DURATION: 3 HOURS
PAPER: (PAPER1)
MARKS: 75
EXAMINER(S)
FIRST OPPORTUNITY QUESTION PAPER
Prof. Niklaas Fredericks
MODERATOR: Dr Sylvia lthindi
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer ALL the questions.
2. Read all the questions carefully before answering.
3. Number the answers clearly
4. Give essay type responses where necessary
5. Use blue or black ink only
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 4 PAGES (Including this front page)
Answer all the questions
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Question 1: MATCHING QUESTIONS
[15]
Look at the following concepts. Link these to the terms below to their corresponding
statement. Write down only the number of the question and the symbol (1) - (a).
TERMINOLOGY
1. Language
Maintenance
2. Pidgin
DESCRIPTION
a. The social and cultural roles, behaviors,
expectations, and attributes that a society
considers appropriate for individuals based on
their perceived or assigned sex
b. language used for communication between
people whose first language differ.
3. Indigenous Language
4. Endangered
language
5. Style
6. Language Family
C. the study of the relationship between language
and society
d. A situation in which a language maintains its
vitality, even under pressure.
e. the way speakers convey the same information
differently.
f. learning both languages at the same time
without separation where languages are not
seen as bounded entity
7. Standard language
g. language is that they are languages that are
particular to a certain place
8. Register
h. A language that is likely to die, that it is, lose its
speakership base and become abandoned in
favour of another language
9. Gender
i. Every person shall be entitle to enjoy, practice,
maintain and promote any culture, language,
tradition or religion subject to the terms of this
Constitution and further to the condition that
the rights protected by this Article do not
impinge upon the rights of others or the
national interest
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10. Tanslanguaging
11. Sociolinguistics
12. Article 11 (1)
13. Official Language
14. Article 19
15. Lingua Franca
j. It is the language used by government
k. variety which is written and which has
undergone some degree of regularization or
codification
I. a group of languages that have originated from
the same original language.
m. a speech variety appropriate to a particular
speech situation
n. new speech varieties that develop for practical
purposes when speakers of two or more
different languages come into contact with
each other.
o. No persons who are arrested shall be detained
in custody without being informed promptly in
a language they understand of the grounds for
such arrest.
Question 2
[2]
Name two (2) main types of code switching.
Question 3
[6]
There are three (3) language families in Namibia, list them in no particular order with one
language as an example.
Question 4
[6]
Linguistically male and female speech may differ, name and explain 3 of such differences.
Question 5
[8]
National languages serve many functions in a community, list 8 of these functions.
Question 6
[8]
Name and explain the social factors according to which language domain may be typified.
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Question 7
[30]
For a language to be called a standard language, it needs to undergo the process of
standardisation. In an essay of about 400 words outline the criteria for standardisation.
END OF QUESTION PAPER
TOTAL: 75
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