Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) National governments impose titular languages upon the population.
(B) People are forced to speak the official language within the state borders.
(C) In multilingual states, local languages are limited by regional borders.
(D) Administrative borders coincide with linguistic boundaries.
Sample questions:
Read the following paragraph:
The linguistic tools available to individuals include not only different languages (like English or German) and different styles or genres (appropriate for different situations), but also different modes. Beyond the formal mode of a standardized language (these are generally languages supported by state institutions and formal education as national and/or as foreign languages, NL and FL), modes of communication include lingua franca (LF), code switching (CS) and lingua receptiva (LaRa).
Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Languages supported by state institutions and formal education present a formal mode.
(B) Lingua franca (LF), code switching (CS) and lingua receptiva (LaRa) are available to individuals as speech styles.
Which of the following would be the right guess about ReLoC?
(A) German is a Regional Vehicular (ReLoC) when it is used as a language of communication by a Dutch, Czech, Pole or Hungarian or other L2-speakers of German in the Central European macro region.
(B) French is a Regional Vehicular or ReLoC in former Czechoslovakia or former Yugoslavia.
Sample purpose questions
· Why does the author propose a typology of ReLan?
· Why does the author refer to boundaries, borders, and borderlands?
Sample Answer Choices:
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