Sociolinguistics

Honelako gehiago

Problem Solving

by Thomas Teepe

Public Relations

by Katie Scott

Malaysia Culture Etiquette (IB)

by Rawan Alakhras - Rick Hansen SS (2542)

11 inventions that changed the world

by Daniel Sima

Sociolinguistics

Study the relationship between language and society.

Prescriptive works

view of language implies a distinction between “good grammar” and “bad grammar,” and its primary focus is on standard forms of grammar and syntactic constructions.

That is, they seek to outline the standard language and how it ‘should’ be spoken W

Descriptive grammar

study of a language, its structure, and its rules as they are used in daily life by its speakers from all walks of life, including standard and nonstandard varieties.

Describe, analyze, and explain how people actually speak their languages.

Code

In practice, linguists do not find it at all easy to write grammars because the knowledge that people have of the languages they speak is extremely hard to describe

When two or more people communicate with each other, we can call the system

Society

the purpose should be to study the relationship between language and society in more specific ways which help more clearly define and understand both the social groups and the ways they speak.

A society must have a language or languages in which to carry out its purposes, and label ways of speaking with reference to their speakers.

A group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes

Language

system of linguistic communication particular to a group; this includes spoken, written, and signed modes of communication.