Sociolinguistics

Name: Nikunj Bhatti

Roll no.:17M.A. Semester: 3Enrollment No.: 14101005Year: 2014-16Paper no.: 12Email id.: nikunjbhatti332@gmail.comSubmitted to: Department of English Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Topic: Sociolinguistic

SociolinguisticUse of language in society.

Sociolinguistic examines the relationship between language use and the social world, particularly how language operates within and created social structures.

Sociolinguistic studies have looked at speech communication based on social categories such as age, gender, profession…….

Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and the way language is used.

HOW DO LANGUAGE CHANGE SPREAD?

From group to group

From style to style

From word to word

STUDYING LANGUAGE CHANGE

Apparent-time studies of language changes

Language change in real time

Social status

Gender

Interaction

Sociolinguistic

Micro-sociolinguistic

Macro-sociolinguistic

Micro-sociolinguistics as a linguistics dimension of society. micro-sociolinguistics refers to research with a linguistic slant, often focusing on dialect and stylistic \ register variation.

Micro-sociolinguistics

Macro-linguistics looks at the behaviors of entire speech communication exploring issues such as why immigrant communities retain their native languages in some contexts but not in other.

According to Coulmas …..‘ linguistic dimensions of society’It is a part of L2(Second language)

What is macro-sociolinguistic?

Research and Practice

Language variation

Language in contact

Linguistic relativity

How does a language change.

Language variation research has focused increasingly on issues of social context.

Pidginisation Process

Pidginisation process is a process that result from contact of two or more language

Creolisation Process

Speaker develops an elaborated code that can accommodate the full range of life’s functions.

Language variation

•For Example :

“Da Vinci Code”

The novel reflect the secret and life of Jesus Christ. to learn language has a particular code.

The Linguistic Relativity research talk about the different culture people and their language.

Cross-cultural miscommunication.

For e.g..Different between European culture and Indian culture.

Thomas distinguishes between what she calls pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic failure. In the former, speakers fail to convey their meaning because the message’s pragmatic force is missunderstood.

Linguistic Relativity

In a diglossic situation two language or variation of a language exist side by side, essentially in complementary distribution.

One is used for Formal situation and other Informal contexts.

Formal situation = It is a high-prestige variety(H).For e.g. Education, religion.

Informal contexts = Frequently the vernacular and native language/variety is considered low(L)

Language in Contact