WHAT IS SOCIOLINGUISTICS?
What is sociolinguistics? picture by: http://pokoknyasosiolinguistik.blogspot.com/2013/04/karakteristik-sosiolinguistik.html Language is a centre to social interaction in all societies, regardless of place and time period. There is a mutual relationship between language and social interaction: language forms social interactions and social interactions form language. The terms of sociocultural contexts and variations of language may be covered in sociolinguistics study (HS Ahmad, 2015). Definitions of Sociolinguistics There are several researchers or linguists give the definition of sociolinguistics in different perspective. 1. The study of the relationship between language and society, of language variation, and of language attitudes (Spolsky in Halima, 2012). 2. An anthropological linguistics branch that explores how language and culture are connected and how language is used in various social contexts (Bell in Halima, 2012). 3. A study of the correlation b