Sociolinguists study the relationship between language and
society. They are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social contexts, and they are concerned with identifyng the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning. Here, socio means society and linguist meansstudy of language. So, sociolinguist is the study of language that is related to society condition. There are some definitions about sociolinguistics based on some sociolinguist. They are: 1. Sosiolinguistics are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social contexts, and they are concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning. (Janet Holmes: 1947) 2. Sosiolinguistics is the study of the caracteristics of language varieties, the carakteristics of their functions,and the characteristics of their speakers as these three constlantly interact, change and change one another within a speech community.(Firsman: 1972) 3. Sosiolinguistics is a developing subfield of linguistics which takes speech variation as its focus, viewing variation or it social context. Sociolinguistics is concerned with the correlation between such social factors and linguistics variation. (Nancy Parrot Hickerson, 1980:81) Based on the definition above, it can be concluded that sociolinguistics is the science field which has interdisipliner characteristic with sosiology, whose research object is the relationship between language and social factors in social speech. Besides sociolinguistic term, there is other term language sociology. Some people assume that the two terms are same, but the other assume that they are different. One said that the term sociolinguistic is used because the research is influenced by linguistic field, while the term language sociology is used when the research is influenced by sociology (Nababan 1884:3 juga brigh 1992:vol 4:9 ).
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