Multiple Choice
The influence of a person's class status on what pronunciation he/she uses;a speaker's choice of more complicated vocabulary and grammar when he/she is speaking to a professional audience;the influence of language on culture--all these are the concerns of _______________.
A) descriptive linguistics
B) historical linguistics
C) sociolinguistics
D) linguistic nationalism
E) displacement
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