MID TEST
Ade Gustia Putri
(1588203040)
Ade Gustia Putri
(1588203040)
1. What is Sociolinguistics?
Answer:
Sociolinguistics
is the study of the relationship between language and society. Socio means society and linguist means study of language. It is any set of
linguistics form which pattern according to social factors. They are concerned with identifying the
social functions of language and cultural context, especially how people with
different social identities speak up for example gender, age, race, ethnicity,
class and how their speech changes in different situations. Also, it is
used to convey social meaning.
2. Why do we learn Sociolinguistics?
Answer:
As we can see,
Sociolinguistics is study of language and society. It is a very significant
aspect in our lives, as we use it very often. It helps us shape our character
by the use of language, and it is common to use sociolinguistics. With learning
sociolinguistics, we can be understood using a language, more aspects or variation
of language and language style here like (Dialect, Accent, Lingua Franca,
Pidgin, Creole, Speech Communities, Codes and others). We use it all the time,
but we never pay close attention.
3. What is the relation between language and society?
Answer:
People use
language and that language is part of society. Social context looks at
relationships between language and society and looks at language as people use
it. It considers the relationship between a person’s language and their social
identity. Language does not affect what we can see in the world, but it is
still possible that language affects people and society because maybe language
still affects the way we can think.
4. Please mention and explain the branches of
linguistics!
Answer:
Linguistics is
the scientific study of language. In studying linguistics, there are two major
categories, include:
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Pure
Linguistics:
1. Phonetic (branch of linguistics that comprises
the study of the sounds of human speech)
2. Phonology (the study of sound patterns and their
meanings, both within and across languages)
3. Morphology (the study of the forms of things, a
particular form, shape, or structure)
4. Syntax (the study of the rules for the formation
of grammatical sentences in language)
5. Lexicology (the study of the formation, meaning,
and use of words and of idiomatic combinations
of words)
6. Semantics (the study of meaning in language)
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Applied
Linguistics:
1.
Sociolinguistics (the study of relationship between language and society)
2. Psycholinguistics (the study of the
relationships between linguistics
behavior and psychological
processes, including the process of language acquisition.
Others.
5. What is standard language? Giving an example!
Answer:
Standard
language is the variety of language that used in formal situations; it is refers
to mode of usage of most educated speakers of a language and established as the
prestigious form of that language. Example: Language in textbook.
6. Elaborating the language, dialect and accent,
please!
Answer:
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Language is the
method of human communication either spoken or written, consisting of the use of
words in a structured and conventional way. Language consist of Dialect and
Accent.
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Dialect is the
variety of language characteristics, consist of pronunciation, vocabulary,
grammar and lexical.
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Accent is just
only in pronunciation (high/low sound)
7. Giving an example of formal language and informal
language!
Answer:
Formal language : A:
Are you one of students in this school?
B: Yes, I am
Informal
language: A: Student here?
B: Of
course
8. What aspects of language are sociolinguists
interested in?
Answer:
Sociolinguists are
interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social
context. Sociolinguistics interested in social factors such as social status,
social distance, age, gender, class, culture, region and language varieties
(dialect, genre, etc.) Sociolinguists are also concerned with identifying the
social functions of language and the way it is used to convey social meaning.
9. When two or more people from different language met
and tried to communicate, what should they do?
Answer:
a. Pidgin is a
language with no native speakers, only some area that understand the language. It
is limited vocabulary and unstructured sentence.
b.
Creole is often
define as a pidgin that has become the first language (mother tongue) of a new
generation of speakers.
c.
Lingua Franca is
a language used to communicate that does not have native language.
When two
or more people met and tried to communicate, they spoke using one language that
is no native language (lingua franca). And also in some area they will use
Pidgin to understand with other people speak, after long process of time,
people using a simple language (creole) to communicate each other.
10. Why do people switch and mix a language?
Answer:
1.
Talking about a particular topic
People sometimes prefer to talk about a particular
topic in one language rather than in another. Sometimes, a speaker feels free
and more comfortable to express his/her emotional feelings in a language that
is not his/her everyday language.
2.
Expressing group identity
Code switching and code mixing can also be used to
express group identity. The way of communication of academic people in their
disciplinary groupings, are obviously different from the other groups.
3.
For prestige (to soften or strengthen request or command)
For Indonesian people, mixing and switching
Indonesian into English can also function as a request because English is not
their native tongue, so it does not sound as direct as Indonesian.
4.
Rival in speaking
Rival in speaking is
also causes how often they code mixing and code switching.
5.
Time and place in speaking
The formal place is fewer for using code mixing and
code switching because the speaker have prepared the material to be discussed.
11. Giving an example of code switching and code mixing!
Answer:
Code switching
Laras: Lima menit lagi rapat dimulai, tapi
tumben sekali Susi belum datang
Diana: Tapi dia tadi bilang mau datang
Laras: Itu dia datang. Woi, tumben je mepet le mangkat. Seko
ngendi?
Susi: Mampir ngomah sikek.
Code Mixing
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Jangan
kuatir, next time will be better.
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Come on baby, jangan terlalu diambil pusing.
