Revision:

1. What is native vocabulary?

2. What are the major criteria of vocabulary stratification?

3. How can the vocabulary be classified in chronological terms?

4. Explain the meanings of the notions coinage, a nonce word, neologism. Give examples.

5. What are the main sources of neologisms? Illustrate your answer with as many examples as possible.

6. Give and extended definition of the term archaism. Exemplify your answer.

7. What is emotionally charged words? What kinds of vocabulary are included in this category?

8. Give a definition of taboo. What common ways of avoiding taboo words do you know? Give some examples of euphemisms.

9. What is the difference between the language of taboo, invective language and the language of swearing?

10. Give account of the notion regional variation of vocabulary. On what levels does variation exist in the English language?

11. List some differences in the British English and American English variants of vocabulary.

12. Explain the notion of social variation of language. What examples of social variants do you know?

13. What are the specific features of Estuary English?

14. Give an extended definition of the term jargon.

15. Explain the meaning of the notion slang.

16. What is political correctness and how is it realised in language?

17. Explain the idea of the people first language.

18. Speak about gender issues in terms of language.