What is Sociolinguistics?

Key Terms:

What is Sociology?

What is Linguistics?

What is the different between Sociolinguistics and. Sociology of Language?

What is Sociolinguistics concerned about?

Sociology: a study of the characteristics, behaviors, and developments of society. The branch of Social Science which studies about a society and its influences to the human life.

Who is August Comte?

Language:

Linguistics:

Who is Ferdinand De Saussure? (Structuralism)

Language

Langue

Parole

Sociolinguistics vs. Sociology of Language

Sociolinguistics: Language è Society

Sociology of Language: Society è Language

Sociolinguistics (Currie, 1952)

The Areas of Sociolinguistics

1. The influence of society as institutions and its members on the use of language.

Internal vs. External Variety

Internal è Phones, letters, morphemes, sentences

Externalè Dialect, Sociolect, Chronolect.

1. The functions of language in society

- Instrumental

- Interaction

- Personality

- Problem solving

- Imaginative

- Informative

1. The way the language is used by and in society

How language develops culture.