Ujian Semester Ganjil "Intro to Sociolinguistics"

Name : Nita Prakasiwi

Nim : 1588203034

1. What is sociolinguistics?

Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. It focuses on how language are used in a community and an area. The use of language may different in each community, area, and can be a level of a person (derajat). Can also, Sociolinguistics is a developing of linguistics which that takes speech variation as its focus, viewing variation or its social context. Sociolinguistics is concerned with the coration between such social factor and linguistic variation There are two types of sociolinguistics, they are sociolinguistics and sociology of language. Sociolinguistics and sociology of language represent two different things. Sociolinguistics characteristic is kulitatif, and sociology of language is kuantatif, and than Sociolinguistics concerned with language by individuals in the context of social, and the diversity of language.


2. Why do we learn sociolinguistics?

When  we learn sociolinguistics that we can understand more about use of the language, diversity language cause of divercation use language and the level of social language, attitude of language, and loyalty integrity of the nation.  By studying the sociolinguistics in addition to add the insight us the language can also foster mindfulness that good and keep uniformitas language. Every science of have benefits in our lives, so also with sociolinguistics. Benefit of  the sociolinguistics very much, therefore language as to object or device of communication verbal human beings who have the rules of certain. Benefit of the knowledge sociolinguistics in communication, such as:

•   Give  orientation for us in communication with show to language, variety of  language, or style language, what we use if we spoke with a particular person and in a certain.

• In instruction sociolinguistics the benefits in explain using language that agree with principle language and principle social.

•   Sociolinguistics can also give contribution in overcome political tensions result the issue of national language in a multilingual.

3. What is the relation between language and society?

Relation Language and Society

Humans are social creatures that can not live alone but always interact with others. Humans use language as tool communication as identity group, and than can  as evidenced by the formation of a variety of language in the worc who has a characteristic unique with another language. Relationship between in language with context social that learn in field sociolinguistics raised  by Trudgill “ Sociolinguistics is part linguistics that relationship with language phenomenon language and culture. The field examine phenomenon of society and science social. Sociolinguistics have component principal that is feature language and the function of the language. Function of language as social egulatory to form the direction and function interpersonal as relationship good, function imajination to explain the fantasy, and function emotional to revealed mood like angry, sad and excited. The development of the language in line with the development of human life in the modern.

4. Please mention and explain the branches of linguistics!

Linguistic branches:

1.Mikrolinguistik

a.general

b.For a specific language

2. Makro Linguistics

a. Interdisciplinary Field

b. Field of applied linguistics

Mikrolinguistik is a linguistic field that consists in the narrow sense, the language in position as a natural phenomenon that stands alone. Microrolinguistics studies the material of language directly about the properties, structure, way of work, and so on. Microrolinguistics is divided into two, namely microlinguistics is general and mikrolinguistik for certain languages.

5. What is standard language? Giving an example!

Standardization or language standardization is the codification and acceptance of a language by the language user community of a set of codices or norms that determine the correct use of language. Standardization of a language has a norm, a word that people accept and is the basis for language teaching.

Example: good morning every one?? How are you today?

6. Elaborating the language, dialect and accent please!

-         Dialect is the regional dialect: the distinct form of a language spoken in a certain geographical area.

-         A dialect is a variety of English which is associated with a particular region and/or social class

-         a language is written in addition to being spoken, while a dialect is just spoken

-         An accent is a person's distinctive pronunciation


7. Giving an example of formal language and informal language!

formal
he has decided to accept the job.
informal “She’s = contraction”
he's decided to accept the job.

8. What aspects of language are sociolinguistics interested in?

Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social contexts. And the effect of social factors such as (social distance, social status, age, gender, class) on language varieties (dialects, registers, genres,etc) and they are concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the way they are used to convey social meanings.



9. When two or more people from different language met and tried to communicate, what should they do?

a.     Pidgin: generally used in situations exchange or there are two groups that speak a language different from the language of the area where he lived.

b.     Creole:  merging some of the language and then pose a new language in a society to the next generation.

c.      Lingua franca:  bahasa pemersatu, seperti bahasa Indonesia atau bahasa nasional

10. Why do people switch and mix a language?
11. Giving an example of code switching and code mixing!