Author Question: Sociolinguists: a. study the structures (phonology and morphology) of a language. b. focus on ... (Read 40 times)

NClaborn · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

Sociolinguists:

a. study the structures (phonology and morphology) of a language.
b. focus on how people actually speak in any given social situation.
c. study language change over time.
d. study language families and the relationships between different lexicons.
e. study how non-standardized forms of language are related to other languages.

Question 2

Margaret Mead conducted fieldwork in New Guinea before and after WWII to see how the culture had changed following the war. In anthropology, this type of research is called

a. genealogical research.
b. survey research.
c. synchronic research.
d. diachronic research.