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    Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. It examines how our use of language varies based on social factors like region, age, gender, and socioeconomic status. While Chomsky argued language should be studied independent of its social uses, others believe an adequate theory must account for variation in real-world language use and how language and society influence each other. Sociolinguistics helps explain why and how we adapt our speech across different social contexts and communities.

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    Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. It examines how our use of language varies based on social factors like region, age, gender, and socioeconomic status. While Chomsky argued language should be studied independent of its social uses, others believe an adequate theory must account for variation in real-world language use and how language and society influence each other. Sociolinguistics helps explain why and how we adapt our speech across different social contexts and communities.

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    Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. It examines how our use of language varies based on social factors like region, age, gender, and socioeconomic status. While Chomsky argued language should be studied independent of its social uses, others believe an adequate theory must account for variation in real-world language use and how language and society influence each other. Sociolinguistics helps explain why and how we adapt our speech across different social contexts and communities.

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    INTRODUCTION

    TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS
    Dwi Rahayu, S.S., M.Pd.
    WHAT IS
    SOCIOLINGUISTICS?
    The study of language in
    relation to social factors,
    including differences of
    regional, class, and
    occupational dialect, gender
    differences, and bilingualism.
    Sociolinguistics is the study of
    the relationship between
    language and society.
    Sociolinguistics can help us
    understand why we speak
    differently in various social
    contexts, and help uncover
    the social relationships in a
    community.
    TERMINOLOGY
    Society: is any group of people
    who are drawn together for a
    certain purpose or purposes

    Language: is what the


    members of a particular society
    speak.
    OUR KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE
    When two or more people communicate in speech, we
    call this system of communication a code.
    In most cases, code= language.
    Bilingual people languages = 2 codes
    - 1st language = 1st code
    - 2nd language = 2nd code
    - Mixing the two languages = 3rd code (interlanguage)
    The best person to describe a language or the
    grammar of the language is the speaker of
    that language.
    HOWEVER, the knowledge of one’s language
    is very hard to describe. WHY?

    Linguists say that speakers knowledge of


    languages is quite abstract.
    Rules of language, ways of saying things
    The possibilities the language offers and what
    is impossible.
    What is correct what is not correct? (when
    hear it for the first time)
    CHOMSKY’S APPROACH
    An attempt to describe the grammar of
    English Follow Noam Chomsky’ approach,
    The most influential figure in late twentieth-
    century linguistic theorizing.
    He argues that linguists must distinguish
    between what is important and
    unimportant about language and
    linguistics behavior.
    IMPORTANT UNIMPORTANT
    MATTERS: MATTERS:
    The learnability of all languages, have to do with how
    the characteristics they share, individual speakers use
    and specific utterances in a variety
    the rules that speakers follow in of ways as they find
    constructing and interpreting themselves in this situation or
    sentences. = competence that. = performance
    CHOMSKY’S VIEW (APPROACH)

    Competence-performance distinction
    The linguist’s task is to characterize
    what speakers know about their
    language (their competence), not what
    they do with their language (their
    performance).
    THE PROBLEM OF VARIATION
    Chomsky’s view = competence- performance Problem.

    WHY?
    Much of the variety that is interesting to linguists is
    categorized as performance.
    EVERYDAY LANGUAGE
    VARIES CONSIDERABLY.
    Language is not only an abstract object of
    study. It is something that people use.
    Linguists who follow Chomsky’s approach
    say that before studying language in use
    we should acquire an efficient knowledge
    of what language itself is (how it is
    learned and what it tells about the
    human mind).
    AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW
    The use and the variation of any
    language must be considered in order to
    have an adequate knowledge of the
    language.
    An adequate linguistic theory must have
    something to say about the uses of
    language.
    Ronald Wardhaugh view
    VARIETY IN USE = SAY THINGS IN
    DIFFERENT WAYS.
    use different language in different situations.
    BUT, There are limits.
    Individuals have knowledge of various limits
    or (norms), and that knowledge is both very
    precise and at the same time entirely
    unconscious.
    Know what is correct or not even hearing it for
    the first time.
    RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN
    LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
    There are 4 posible views:
    1
    2
    social structure
    opposite to the 1st
    influences or
    view, Linguistic
    determines linguistic
    structure
    structure. e.g., age
    children/adults speak
    influences or
    differently determines social
    Regional/social/ethnic structure.
    origin
    Sex (male, female)
    3 4
    influence is bi-
    directional: language No relationship
    and society may between
    influence each linguistic
    other. structure and
    Speech behavior and social structure.
    social behavior are in (Chomsky’s view)
    a state of constant
    interaction
    SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND
    THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE
    The differences

    Sociolinguistics is Sociology of
    the study of language is the
    language in study of society in
    relation to society. relation to
    language.
    We study society
    to learn more We study language
    about language. to learn more
    about society.
    THANK
    YOU

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