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Name: Nikunj Bhatti
Roll no.:17M.A. Semester: 3Enrollment No.: 14101005Year: 2014-16Paper no.: 12Email id.: [email protected] 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