SUMMARY OF
PRESENTATION OF GROUP 1
INTRODUCTION TO
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Any discussion of the relationship between language
and society, on of the various functions of language in society, should begin
with some attempt to define each of these terms. Let us say that a society is
any group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purpose. By
such a definition ‘society‘ become a very comprehensive concept.
But we will soon see how useful such a comprehensive view is because of the
very different kinds of societies we must consider in the course of the
discussion we follow.
We may attempt an equally comprehensive definition of
language: a language is what the members of a
particular society speak. However, as we will see, speech in almost any society
can take many very different forms, and just what forms we should choose to
discuss when we attempt to describe the language of a society may prove to be a
contentious matter. Sometimes too a society may be plurilingual; that is, many
speakers may use more than one language, however we define language. We should
also note that our definitions of language and society are not independent: the
definition of language includes in it a reference to society
QUESTION FOR GROUP 1
Question from Shelvira
Elsa Dwita
- What is the relation of Data and Theory in methodological concerns?
Ø Because whatever sociolinguistics is, it must be
oriented toward both data and theory.
Question from Indri
Christina
- The meaning of code in language?
Ø When two or more people communicate with each other
in speech, we can call the system of communication that they employ a code.
Question from Linda
Wati
- How do we used language as well and how it may be best characterized?
Ø The way is people can understand about someone said
and the grammar to use well is something that each speaker knows.
KIND OF LANGUAGE
- SIGN
- SYMBOL
- CODE
- GESTURE
- SOCIOLECT
- RHYMING SLANG
- PIDGIN
