Selasa, 21 November 2017

MID TEST OF INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS

SHELA SAFHIRA
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1. What is sociolinguistics?
Answer:
Sociolinguistics is the branches of linguistics that study about language in social.Sociolinguistics comes from socio and linguistics.Socio is the relationship between one people to another people and make the interaction and have the purposes.Linguistics is the language that is used by the people for do the interaction with the other people. .So,sociolinguistics is the language that used by the people when they speak with other people to make understanding each other and make interaction for get their purpose.But,the language that is used by the people  have differentiate in each other like dialect and accent because they have different culture and also their region.Like dialect,in every language have different grammar,vocabulary and pronunciation in each country and also,accent has differentiate pronunciation suitable with their country.For example like the people from Bataknees it will be different with the way of javaness dialect and accent.
2. Why do we learn Sociolinguistic? 
Answer:
Sociolinguistics is the study of language that use in social environment. language is the essential thing that people need to communicate, share and get the information, feeling, ideas, etc.We live in social environment called society. so, it show that we must learn and comprehend our understanding of sociolinguistics to communicate with others in our environment. the advantages of learn sociolinguistic are; to increase our awareness that every region has different language, dialect and accent then, we know the different characteristics of language that used in different region, the different culture of people in different region, we also know that social factors such as class and gender influence the language too. and we can get many vocabulary of language in a region to communicate with people around the region.
3. What is the relationship between language and society?
Answer :
Language and society have a closed realtioship both of them.Because of what?because when we talk with the people,we use language,when we needs the people help,we use language.All of our activities use language and all of aour activities use language and social to make a good interaction between one people to another people and create the good understanding and comprehension.Language exist because there are the society that use them for do interaction.And the society used the language in all their activities.If there is no language,we as the society will find the difficulties when we talk and misunderstanding will be exist.Language will develop if its society develop too and language will be lost if its society not develop their language.And develop the language is influenced by the people.it make the language has a closed relationship with society.Because they can not separate.
4. Please mention and explain the branches of linguistics!
 Answer:
 The Branches of linguistics; 
  • Phonetics, the study of the physical properties of sounds of human language 
  • Phonology, the study of sounds as discrete, abstract elements in the speaker's mind that distinguish meaning 
  • Morphology, the study of internal structures of words and how they can be modified 
  • Syntax, the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences 
  • Semantics, the study of the meaning of words (lexical semantics) and fixed word combinations (phraseology), and how these combine to form the meanings of sentences 
  • Pragmatics, the study of how utterances are used (literally, figuratively, or otherwise) in communicative acts 
  • Discourse analysis, the analysis of language use in texts (spoken, written, or signed) 
  • Applied linguistic is the branch of linguistic that is most concerned with application of the concepts in everyday life, including language-teaching.
5. What is standard language?giving an example!
Answer :
Standard language is a variety of language that is used by governments,in the media,in schools and for international communication.For example,in different regional dialect and these non-standard varieties are different from each other.
6. Elaborating the language, dialect, and accent please!
Answer :
Language
is the essential system that human need to communicate with others by spoken or written to sharing or receiving our feeling, ideas, information, etc.
Dialect is the variety of language that describes the specific region distinguished by pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary.
Accent is the specific ways to pronounce or stress a language.
7. Giving an example of formal and informal language
Answer:
Formal language
            A: may I help you ?
            B: yes, of course! open the door please, thank you.
            A: you are welcome
 Informal language:
            A:I go to market in this morning
            B: ok, take care 
8.What aspects of language are sociolinguistics interested in?
Answer :
Sociolinguistics interested in different language,dialect and accents or social context.because the people can know about variety of language in sociolingusitics and can learn it.
9. When two or more people from different language met and tried to communicate, what should they do?
Answer :  
-Pidgins is a restricted language which arises for the purposes of communication between two social groups of which one is in a more dominant position than the other
- Creoles is a language that was originally a pidgin but has become nativized, i.e. a community of speakers claims it as their first language.
- Lingua Franca is a language used to communicate between people who speak different languages natively.
So, they should use lingua franca because lingua franca do not eliminate the original language or produce a new language
 
10.Why do people switch and mix a language?
Answer:
There are some factor that make the people switch and mix the language
1.Because not at all the people full understanding with the language that is use when they speak.It make the people to do switch and mix and did not happen miss understanding each other.For example,when the someone with javaness talk with their friend that have the javaness too,and than their other friend that have malay comes and join to speak with them,so they must switch their language that third of them understanding.
2.If there are switch and mix,the people can know or learn the new language that before they did not know what the meaning is.it can be one of way to know some vocabularywhen they use mixing when they speak.
3.The people think that if they do switch and mix,they feel so cool because they know the other language.
11. Giving an example of code switching and code mixing?
Answer :
Code switching
A: gimana ni aku khawatir banget
B: keep calm, cause everithing is gonna be ok
A: ok, I can try 
Code mixing
oh my god aku telat bangun in the morning

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