SOCIOLINGUISTICS

SOCIAL VARIETIES OR SOCIAL CLASS

MEILANY ADE PUTRI

SOCIAL VARIETIES OR SOCIAL CLASS

 Social Class
 Gender
SOCIOLINGUISTICS  Age
 Style
 Network

a term that refers to the study

of the relationship between
language and society, and how
language is used in multilingual
speech communities
 SOCIAL CLASS
Social class involves grouping people together
according to their status within society and
according to the groups they belong to

occupation income

education
 SOCIAL FACTORS

SOCIAL DISTANCE AND

THE PARTICIPANTS
STATUS

THE SETTING FORMALITY

THE TOPIC
REFERENTIAL AND
AFFECTIVE
THE FUNCTION
 PRESTIGE
POWER The degree of respect or
The degree to which a importance given to a
person can control other person by members of
people society

WEALTH
Objects or symbols
owned by people which
have value attached to
them
Upper class Lower class
and more are important
factors to and less
educated determine educated
social variety
or dialect

Tend to use Tend to

more simplify the
complicated Differ in form
way of
forms and speaking
pronunciation
 SOCIAL CLASS STYLE
FORMAL INFORMAL

• At school, offices, etc • At family group

• Speech • Same age
• Young – elder • Friends chat
• Subordinate – superior
• Student - teacher