Summary:
Sosiolingustic is brances of linguistic
Sosiolinguistic is how the language and society
We must acknowledge
that a language is essentially a set of items, what Hudson (1996, p. 21) calls
‘linguistic items,’ such entities as sounds, words, grammatical structures, and
so on. It is these items, their status, and their arrangements that language
theorists such as Chomsky concern themselves with. On the other hand, social
theorists, particularly sociologists, attempt to understand how societies are
structured and how people manage to live together. To do so, they use such
concepts as ‘identity,’ ‘power,’ ‘class,’ ‘status,’ ‘solidarity,’
‘accommodation,’ ‘face,’ ‘gender,’ ‘politeness,’ etc. A major concern of this
book is to examine possible relationships between ‘linguistic items’ on the one
hand and concepts such as ‘power,’ ‘solidarity,’ etc. on the other. We should
note that in doing so we are trying to relate two different kinds of entities
in order to see what light they throw on each other. That is not an easy task.
Linguistic items are difficult to define. Try, for example, to define exactly what
linguistic items such as sounds, syllables, words, and sentences are. Then try
to define precisely what you understand by such concepts as ‘social class,’
‘solidarity,’ ‘identity,’ ‘face,’ and ‘politeness.’ Finally, try to relate the
two sets of definitions within some kind of theory so as to draw conclusions
about how items in these two very different classes relate to each other. Do
all this while keeping in mind that languages and societies are constantly
changing. The difficulties we confront are both legion and profound.
There are several
possible relationships between language and society. One is that social
structure may either influence or determine linguistic structure and/or
behavior. Certain evidence may be adduced to support this view: the age-grading
phenomenon whereby young children speak differently from older children and, in
turn, children speak differently from mature adults; studies which show that
the varieties of language that speakers use reflect such matters as their
regional, social, or ethnic origin and possibly even their gender; and other
studies which show that particular ways of speaking, choices of words, and even
rules for conversing are in fact highly determined by certain social
requirements.Question and Answer:
1.)
Selvira Elsa Dwita
In methodological concerns there are data and theory. What is
relationship between data and theory ?
Answer :
Whatever sociolinguistic is it must be oriented toward both data and
theory.
So, Relationship is solidly, based on evidence, but also must be motivated by questions that are posed in terms such that they can be answered in an approved scientific way.
2.)
Lindawati
How we used language as a well ?
Answer:
If people can understand what the speaker meaning
3.)
Indri Christina
What the meaning of code?
Answer:
May also refer to a language or a variety of a
language as a code. Such terms as dialect,language , style , standard language.
