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Socio Linguistics
Class : V B
Subject : Sociolinguistics
1. What is Sociolinguistics ?
Answer : Sociolinguistics consists of two words, socio and linguistics. Socio means
people, community or society. Meanwhile, linguistics means study of language. Literally,
we can define Sociolinguistics is about between language and society. Sociolinguistics is
an interdisciplinary science which is concerned of two main aspects, language and
society. The aim of this study is, Sociolinguistics does not only investigate language and
community in certain regions, even anywhere. Sociolinguistics focuses on the effect of
society for language. Sociolinguistics has been increasingly important and a popular field
of study. Sociolinguistics does not only involve language and community, but also
touches languages aspects, terminology (involved in language), and intergroup,
interpersonal, religion, ethnography, culture, etc (involved in community). Gumperz in
Wardhaugh stated that sociolinguistics is an attempt to find correlation between social
structure and linguistics structure and to observe any changes that occurs. Social structure
itself may be measured by reference to such factors as social class and educational
background, and verbal behavior and performance may be related to these factors.
Answer : the aims why we should learn sociolinguistics are we can understand more
about language usage, language diversity due to the diversification of language users and
the social level of language users, language attitudes, and loyalty to the integrity of the
language. By studying sociolinguistics, in addition to increasing our insights in linguistics
can also foster good language awareness and maintain the uniformity of language. Every
science, of course, has benefits in our lives, as well as sociolinguistics. The benefits of
sociolinguistics very much because the language as the object of study is a verbal
communication tool of humans who have certain rules. The benefits of sociolinguistic
knowledge in communicating such as provide guidance to us in communicating by
showing us what language, language, or style of language we use when we talk to certain
people, and in certain places, i teaching, sociolinguistics is useful in explaining the use of
language in accordance with the rules of language and social rules, and Sociolinguistics
can also contribute to overcoming political tensions due to the issue of national language
selection in multilingual countries.