SOCIOLINGUISTICS

 

This blog Learning and Teaching Sociolinguistic is expected to spread knowledge and motivation on this course. Our main goal is to be able to motivate student in learning Sociolinguistics. We hope that this blog will give much benefit to both the learner and instructor for this course.

What is Sociolinguistic? 

Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. This subject concerns about why people speak differently in different social context how society influences the way language is used to convey meaning. Sociolinguistics is a very interesting subject as it gives more explanation on how language shapes people's identity and how they perceive their world. Through the study of Sociolinguistics, we may know about:-

1)Multilingual Speech Community (How people from different community communicate)
- Code-switching and code-mixing
- Diaglossia

2) Language maintenance and shift (How people preserve their own language)
- Language shift
- Language death and language loss

3) Linguistics varieties and multilingual nations
- Standard vs Vernacular language
- Lingua Francas
-Pidgin and Creoles

4) National Language and Language Planning
- National and Official Language

5) Language Change (Hoe language change and how the changes spread)

6) Style, context and register

7) Language, Politeness and Stereotypes

So, this subject is a very interesting subject and it will be more interesting if the learning and teaching of it assisted by the use of software or website as become crucial today.