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LING one hundred sixty Guidelines for exam 2 Exam Date, Time, and Room Exam 2 is on Thursday, March 28, 2012, room 3310, at 230 p. m. It will be about one hour long. Exam Format Mostly multiple-choice questions and a few open-ended, short-answer questions, like exam 1. Well have among 45 and 50 questions total. Unless stated otherwise, digest short, bullet-like, answers to the open-ended questions including only the relevant information and skipping unnecessary parts. For example, do non write I believe that one of the most important factors for XXX is just provide the most important factor(s), and do not exceed the space provided.If you have one line for an answer, do not write more than that. There will be deductions for lengthy answers. What to Bring Your SFU student ID, a pencil and an eraser for the Scantron Sheet, and a non-eras open blue or black pen for the open-ended questions. General Guidelines ? Practice doing the exercises in the text. Answers for most of them can be found at the end of each chapter. ? Though exam 2 will mostly cover the material discussed after exam 1, exam 2 will be cumulative. It will cover everything up to and including week 9, i. . , Chapters 1-10 from the textbook, including Ch. 10 Style, Context and Register, and the accompanying articles from the Reading List. ? focus on main ideas and detect examples supporting them. ? You do not have to memorize every single(a) example in the textbook chapters and articles from every language. However, you do have to know the definitions of major terms, their application, and be able to provide examples illustrating the terms discussed in the texts and in the lectures. 1 LING 160/Dr.Ivelina Tchizmarova March 14, 2013 What will the Exam Cover? Textbook It will cover Ch. 1-10, including Ch. 10 from the textbook. Articles It will also cover the articles from the infering proclivity up until and including week 9s disciplines on Style, Context, and Register (see the Reading List). Focus particularly on the following six articles and book chapters there may be open-ended questions on them, so read them c atomic number 18fully, and be prep ared to come up with your own answers 1. De Wolf, Gaelan Dodds. 990. Social and regional Differences in Grammatical practice in Canadian English Ottawa and Vancouver. American Speech. 65. 13-32. 2. Clarke, Sandra. 2006. Nooz or Nyooz? The Complex Construction of Canadian Identity. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 51. 2/3225-246. 3. Hoffman, Michol and James Walker. 2010. Ethnolects and the City Ethnic Orientation and Linguistic random variable in Toronto English. linguistic communication Variation and Change. 2237-67. 4. Clarke, Sandra and Philip Hiscock. 2009.Hip-hop in a Post-insular Community Hybridity, Local terminology, and Authenticity in an Online Newfoundland Rap Group. Journal of English Linguistics. 37. 3241-261. 5. Battarbee, Keith. 2010. Shifts in the Language of Law Reading the Registers of Official Lang uage Statutes. Text and Talk. 30. 6637-655. There may be multiple-choice questions on all of the remaining articles from the reading list for weeks 1-9 (not just the articles after exam 1) they will be based on main ideas and key supporting examples. ? Below is a sample list of topics to review for exam 2.For each topic (1) be able to provide definitions of the sociolinguistic terms (2) illustrate them with specific examples from divers(prenominal) parts of the world (3) yoke the term specifically to Canada based on the articles in the reading list and the group presentations (4) when terms are given in pairs (or groups), you hold to be able to tell how they are similar and how they are different from each other. ? For a more detailed list of topics, see the main texts control panel of contents on pp. ix-xii. 2 LING 160/Dr. Ivelina Tchizmarova March 14, 2013Sample List of Topics to Review Please origin that this is not an exhaustive list, and the questions on the actual exam ma y differ from these in content and format. 1. Regional and Social Dialects. 2. National and Official Languages. 3. Vernacular and Standard Varieties. 4. Language loss, language death, and language revival. 5. Gender-exclusive and gender-preferential language. 6. Age-graded features of language. 7. Ethnicity and language. 8. Social networks. 9. Language Variation and Language Change. 10. Style, context, and register.Other Reminders 1. Be on time. If you are late, you will not be given bare time to complete the exam. 2. Write legibly. If your answer is illegible, well mark it as wrong. 3. Please remember that there are no makeup exams in this course. If you are sick and cant write the test, inform me by email. Make sure you see a doctor and obtain a doctors situation for that day. The only medical form I accept is the Health Care Provider Statement from the SFU website below. If you need it, print it out, and have your doctor complete it http//students. sfu. a/content/dam/sfu/studen ts/pdf/healthcare-statement-general. pdf 4. Please do not email me questions about the exam. Ask your questions in class, so everyone can have the chance to contribute to and larn the answer. 5. Answers to exam questions will not be posted on webct or distributed to students. However, well discuss the answers to exam 2 in class a week after the exam, so if you would like to hear them, you need to run into the lecture. Remember also to bring your instructions with you, so you can check your answers. 3 LING 160/Dr. Ivelina Tchizmarova March 14, 2013