LECTURE 12

Psycho-
Sociolinguistics
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 Applied Linguistics

Psycholinguistic
s Sociolinguistics
Learning Using language
language:
 Psycholinguistics
• The study of :
1). mental process that a person uses in
producing and understanding language, and
2) how humans learn language.
Psycholinguistics includes:
1). The study of speech perception
2). The role of memory, concept and other
processes in language use.
3). Social and psychological factors affect the
use of language.
 The content of Psycholinguistics
1. Language Function
2. Psychological Aspect in Lge TL: Attitude,
aptitude, motivation, memory
3. Behavioral Psychology
4. Cognitive Psychology
5. The development of Child language
6. Language Creativity
7. Language Competence Performance
8. Language Acquisition.
9. Language Comprehension and Production
10.Approach and Strategies in LgeTL
 Psycho-sociolinguistics
•Psycholinguistics • Sociolinguistics =
•Psychology + • Sociology +
Linguistics. Linguistics
• study of language in
•Mental process of
relation to society.
how to learn and
• How to use language
acquire language, in social
•how to produce communication.
and understand • the interaction between
language. language use and
• socio-cultural factors
 Sociolinguistics
•Study of language in relation to
society.
•Linguistics only takes into account the
structure of language, excluding the social
context in which it is used and acquired.
•Sociolinguistics relates language to society
and culture, social factors such as class, age,
gender, and ethnicity, the aim is that the
language users can apply it with appropriate
way.
The role of Sociolinguistics

•Sociolinguistics is related to
the attitude and the way of
how to speak differently in
varying social contexts, and
social situations.
 Sociolinguistics
•Sociolinguistics is concerned with
the relationship between language
and the context in which it is used.
• In short, it studies the relationship
between language and society.
•It explains that the people speak
differently in different social contexts.
 The benefit of Sociolinguistics
Studying sociolinguistics can widen
educational horizons for English students.
Sociolinguistics can help them learn more
about language variation and language use.
Sociolinguistics can prepare them to better
participate in everyday life for their own
benefit and for the benefit of other people
around them.
 Psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics is the study of
a mental process that a person uses in
producing and understanding language,
and how human learn
language.
Psycholinguistics includes the study of
speech perception, the role of memory,
concepts in language use, and how social
and psychological factors affect the use of
language.
 The main of purpose of
psycholinguistics
The main of purpose of
psycholinguistics is to describe the
process of producing and
comprehending communication.
In the tradition of psychology, various
models are used to further this
understanding.
 Social Communication

Competence

Linguistic Communicative
Competenc Competence
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 Aspects in Psycholinguistics

•Three main aspects:

•(a) Language Comprehension,
•(b) Language Production
• (c) Language Acquisition/
learning
 Micro-sociolinguistics
•Study of interpesonal communication;
speech act and speech event , variation of
language which is used by a group of
people to social factors : sociolect or social
dialect that is a variety of a language
(dialect) used by people belonging to a
particular social class.
• The speakers of sociolect usually share a
similar socioeconomic or educational
background. Low and high in status
 Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics : is the study of language in
relation to social factors, that is :
1. Social class,
2. Educational level, type of education
3. Age
4. Sex
5. Ethnic origin etc
 Speech Act
Speech Act :
An utterance as a functional unit in
communication, which have two kinds
of meaning:
1). the literal meaning of words and and
stuctures
2). the meaning which is understood
by listeners or readers.
 Speech act classification:
• 1). Commissive: doing something in the future:
• I’ll take you to the restaurant tomorrow
2). Declarative : state of affairs
He is my best friend
3) Directive : expecting to do something:
Please sit down!
4). Expressive : expressing feeling
Great , wonderful, how come!
5). Representative: claim, report, assertion:
This is really Japanese Car
 Speech Event
Particular instance when exchange speech in
communication, eg.:Greeting , enquiery,
conversation
The components of a speech event are:
1. Setting,
2. participants,
3. role relationship,
4. message,
5. key (tone, manner, spirit, intonation, level of
pitch) and
6. channel
 Macro-sociolinguistics
•Part of Sociology of language varieties
and their users within social
framework,
•the study of language choice in
bilingual, multilingual nations,
• language planning,
• language maintenance and
• language shift.
 Speech Community
•A Group of People who form a community, eg.
•A Village, a region, a nation, and who have at
least one speech variety in common.
•In bilingual and multilingual communities,
people would usually have more than one
speech variety in common.
•Speech variety = dialect, sociolect, pidgin,
creole, Cirebonan (not Javanese nor
Sundanese), Australian English, American
English, Singaporean English, Indian English etc.
 ELT in Practice
•Socio- •Psycho
linguistics linguistics
•How to use •How to
lge in social
communicatio acquire lge
n mastery
 Sociolinguistics
Language Function
Sociology
Social Behavior
Communication
Language in use
Social Stratification
Formal and informal setting
Casual
Situational and functional syllabus
Discourse,
Genre
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