Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo IDI-234-20W 2023-2 TASK 2.1
Name: ______________________________ Student ID: __________________
After reading the texts in the “MATERIALS” section in UNIT I, in 1 or 2 well written
sentences, answer the following questions:
1. What are the two varieties of language?
2. What are the 3 main levels of language?
3. What is the difference between “content” words and “function” words? linguistics
process is a coinage?
4. What is an archaism? Find and supply three examples.
5. What is the difference between a “foreignism” and a “barbarism”? give an
example of each.
Foreignism: __________________ Barbarism: ___________________
6. In stylistic terms, English Vocabulary or lexicon can be classified as:
a) _________________________
b) _________________________
c) _________________________
7. in one well-written sentence, explain the difference between the oral or spoken
variety of language and the written one. (just one difference for each level).
a) Phonetic level:
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b) The Lexical level:
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c) The syntactical level:
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