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B. You do not understand a sentence but when you read the next sentence you can

know the meaning of the first one.

C. You do not know why in a foreign movie people say yes as they shake their

heads.

D. You do not know what a text is about until you are given the title of the text.

5. Which of the following statements can be made about sociolinguistics?

A. It has contributed to a fresh look at the nature of language development and use.

B. It has contributed to the development of theoretical linguistics.

C. It has contributed to a change of emphasis in the content of language teaching.

D. It has contributed to innovations in materials and activities for the language

classroom.

6. Which of the following statements are true of a computer corpus?

A. It is a large body of machine-readable texts.

B. It is a collection of linguistic data.

C. Its main purpose is to verify a hypothesis about language.

D. It deals with the principles and practice of using corpora in language study.

7. Which of the following terms are related to Cognitive Linguistics?

A. Word recognition. B. Language acquisition.

C. Construal operations. D. Categorization.

8. Which of the following are NOT true of the “women register”?

A. Women use more “fancy” color terms.

B. Women use stronger swearing words.

C. Women use more intensifiers.

D. Women use more direct expressions.