● What is Sociolinguistics?
Sociolinguistic is the study of the relationship between language and society. The range of the study is various. For example, these study include class, region and gender. Communicating with friends or work's partner are also part of the study. Sociolinguistic focuses on explaining these differences. This time, the paper will take up three parts and discuss differences of sociolinguistic. First part is gender. Next is relationship between speaker and listener, and last part is region. →more...
● Gender
Men and women are different from appearance, voice and hair style. They have many different things. For the reason, the way of speaking of the man and woman is different, too. Susan who is Ph. D says:
“Girls' friendships focus on making connections -- talk is essential to this process. Sharing secrets, relating experiences, revealing problems and discussing options are essential during girls' development. Boys generally take another approach to friendship. Their camaraderie is not less profound; it's just different. Buddy groups tend to be larger, focusing on activities rather than conversation.”
This opinion can persuade people into the difference of speaking between men and women. From this, differences of the speech occur. →more1 more2
Also differences of man and woman in speaking are word used by them. "Let's play tennis!" and "Shall we play tennis?" are good example. Man often use "Let's ~.". And "lovely" tend to be understand girl or woman language.
Language differ from each identity, but sex may be main factor.
● Relationship
The relationship between speaker and listener influences how people use words. If language varies so much, what guides should people follow when speak or write? They decide what to use words for one to talk to. There are many varieties of relationships. For example, on the communication with friends, they use frank informal words or slang. While, on the communication between a teacher and a student, the student uses formal and polite words.
● Dialects
Today, English is spoken around the world.Dialects differences are influenced by region and country. Languages have systems and dialects also have systems, because our language use is consistent, that is, there is some set of fundamental rules and principals. For example, there are also words that peculiar to Australia and New Zealand as many words were borrowed from aboriginal languages. The standard greeting in Australia is Goodday! instead of Hello!
Let’s play with a sheila or with a footpath by the station.
Let’s play with a girl or with a curved stick of hard wood on pavement by the stock farm.
Questions
Which sex prefer to use polite language?
What do you remind of woman and man language?
What do you remind of woman and man language?
How does language change?
How many dialects are there in the world?
Key words
class... quality, grade,rank
region... area on the earth, a sphere
relation... situation between speaker and listener
dialect... country, area
Works Consulted
Tanaka, Sachiko. Language in Society. Japan. Sebido, 2008. Print.
Sherwood, Susan. “10 ways men and women communicate differently” Discovery. Web. 21 June 2013.
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