Nama Mahasiswa : SILVIA DWI ARISTIA

Nomor Induk Mahasiswa/ NIM : 041145397

Kode/Nama Mata Kuliah : PBIS4131/Sociolinguistics

Kode/Nama UPBJJ : SERANG

Masa Ujian : 2020/21.2 (2022.1)

KEMENTERIAN PENDIDIKAN DAN KEBUDAYAAN

UNIVERSITAS TERBUKA
1. In your opinion, what is the relationship between language and society?
The connection between language and society is tightly anchored. The relationship of the
two is deeply rooted. Language performs various functions in the society and the society does the
same way. If one will not exist, the other one will be affected.

Language is the primary tool for communication purposes, for establishing peace and order in
our society, for showing authority and power, and for attaining goals and objectives. But, it can
also destruct the society if it will use inappropriately. It must follow the conformity governing
the society to avoid conflict s and to meet the boundary of individual differences.

Society however controls our language by giving us preferences as what are acceptable and not,
because each one of us has our own perception or point of view. A group of people may accept
our language, but for others, it could be kind of offence or insult. We must know how, when and
where to say it and for what purpose.

Social changes produce changes in language. This affects values in ways that have not been
accurately understood. Language incorporates social values. However, social values are only the
same as linguistic values when the society is a stable and unchanging one. Once society starts
changing, then language change produces special effects.

2. What do you know about Sociolinguistics?

Sociolinguistics is the study of how language is related to society. It also studies how
people affect language usage. Sociolinguistics studies how variety in language changes between
groups of people because of things such as race, gender, status, age, etc.
Sociolinguistics is defined as the study of how the people around us and our heritage can change
the way our speak. An example of sociolinguistics is a mixing language of Indonesian and
English being spoken together as “Anak Jaksel” combining the English and bahasa as a random
spoken. (linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language.

3. In your opinion, what do you think the factors influencing people’s choice
of code in communication?
There are three factors that influence someone uses code mixing and code switching. The
three factors used by the writer in this study. They are social factor, cultural factor and individual
factor (Hudson, 1980). Other factors that could account for code switching were maintaining
privacy, the ease of speaking in the first language compared to speaking in English, avoiding
misunderstanding, and unfamiliarity with similar words in English

4. What is the differences between receptive bilingualism and productive

bilingualism?
The term 'receptive bilingualism/multilingualism' is used for diverse populations, all of
which understand a language without producing speech in it, but differ in the way this receptive
ability was achieved and in the linguistic knowledge underlying it.
In a word, “productive bilingualism” takes into consideration the interaction between
two culture systems, and emphasize the favorable development of the learners who are both
creative and integrated, someone who are possessed with linguistic competence, communicative
competence as well as critical competence bracing the foreign culture while retaining their own
cultural heritage. The phrase “productive bilingualism”, in Gao’s words, refers to “the command
of the target language and that of the native language positively reinforce each other; deeper
understanding and appreciation of the target culture goes hand in hand with deeper
understanding and appreciation of the native culture. In the process of learning another language
and related culture, the learner’s personality becomes more open and integrated at the same
time.” (Gao Yihong’s Abstract)