Name : Richard Ray

NIM : 321810118

Class : A Afternoon (6th semester)

Subject : Sociolinguistics (assignment 1)

Questions

1. Please, explain about the main poin of Sociolinguistics study from the experts,
especially from Ronald Wardhaugh and Peter Trudgill.
2. Please, explain about the main poin of Language and Communities in sociolinguistics
from the experts, especially from Ronald Wardhaugh and Peter Trudgill.

Answers

1. The main poin of Sociolinguistics study from the experts :

- The study that is concerned with investigating the relationship between language and
society with the goal of a better understanding of the structure of language and of
how languages function in communication. (Ronald Wardhaugh, 1986 : 12)
- Sociolinguistics is a well written and informative introduction to the study of
linguistic variation as a social phenomenon. Sociolinguistics can be characterized as
the branch of linguistics which employs or is concerned with the methods, findings,
or subject matter of the social sciences. (Peter Trudgill, 1974 : 32)
2. The main poin of Language and Communities in sociolinguistics from the experts :
- Standing on the idea that language is a means of communication and social
interaction between human beings, Wardhaugh (1992: 1) says that language is what
the members of a particular society speak. The society in which people live affects
the way they use language. In other words, society is any group of people who are
drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes (Wardhaugh, 1992: 1)
- Trudgill argues that certain types of language studies are almost entirely sociological
in their objectives and seem to fall outside even the sociology of language. Trudgill’s
view is that ‘all work in this category is aimed ultimately at improving linguistic
theory and at developing our understanding of the nature of language’ (1978, p. 11).