UTS LANGUAGE OF SOCIETY

Name : Eka Wahyuni Oktavia

NIM : 2320021
Class : PBI-3A

1. a) In my opinion, the phenomena of using language as reported by Tanner (1967) is

the phenomena about code switching, like people usually required to select a
particular code (language) whenever they choose to speak, and they may also decide
to switch from one code to another. Ethnic diversity in the collage student community
gives rise to nuances and phenomena that are unique and different in the use of
language. Multi ethnic people tend to use different languages when communicating
with one ethnic group and another. This ethnic and language diversity allows a person
to be able to use more than one language.

b) The factors which stimulate the occurrence of such phenomena of using language
are :
- The participants, they use English when discussed their academic work with friends.
- The setting or social context of the interaction, they use Indonesian in common
activities and use Javanese only with intimates.

2. a) Language planning is a systematic activity of regulating and improving existing

languages or creating new common regional, national or international languages.
When the government choose a variety as a national or official language, it does
language planning. There are four steps of planing a language ; selection, codification,
elaboration, and securing its acceptance.

 Types of Language Planning

a) Status Planning
b) Corpus Planning
c) Acquisition Planning

 For examples :
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), wrote 40,000 word dictionary in 1755. it helped
in the codification of English.

b) The factors appear to account for the different evaluations of accents are
geographical conditions and social environment. Each region has different
geographical conditions that cause the emergence of different accents, as seen in
differences in pronunciations, in the choices and form of the word, and syntax. Then
is the social environment of those people. People can speak differently according to
their age, gander, ethnicity, social or educational background, also to context (formal
or informal).
3. The topic/learning material that I choose in this course is “Regional and Social
Variation”
 I choose this topic because in this topic we can understand about what is
regional variation, social variation and also social dialect. If we understand
about what is actually regional variations, it can be easy way to observing
variety in language. Form social variation we we know that people from
different places clearly speak differently according to their age, gander,
ethnicity, social or educational background, also to context (formal or
informal). The explanation of this topic is clearly enough, so we can
understand fast.

 Key point :
- Regional variation
- Variety of speaking language
- Geographical area
- Social variation
- Gender
- Age
- Ethnic
- Education
- Social group

 The relation between the learning material and the Islamic moral values is we
know that in Islam are taught to always be polite in speaking, both young and
old. In an area there are dialect variations which of course differentiate one
region from another. But that difference does not rule out the possibility for
us to always speak politely.

4. 10 term that I have studied in course of Language in Society.

a) Diglossia is the phenomenon of the use of various languages in a community. In

this situation people use more than one language at the same time.
b) Code switching is when a speaker alternates between two or more languages (or
dialects or varieties of language) in one conversation.
c) Code Mixing is he use of language from one language to another to expand the
style or variety of language.
d) Language Shift is a phenomenon in which speakers of a particular language
leave their mother tongue because it is not appropriate.
e) Language Death is the phenomenon of the extinction of a language along with
the extinction of its speakers.
f) Language Loss is phenomenon where the loss of a language, but the people are
still there because it is no longer used.
g) Language Change is a phenomenon where there is a change in terms in a
language that is no longer used or changes are made to make it more polite.
h) Language Maintenance is a phenomenon where minority groups in an area, who
always maintain their mother tongue.
i) Regional Variation is a variation of speaking a language connected with the
place and it can be the easy way to observing variety in language.
j) Social Variation is people from different places clearly speak differently
according to their age, gander, ethnicity, social or educational background, also to
context (formal or informal)