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    linguists to regularly reexamine the works of leaders of our field upon whose shoulders we continue to stand (despite our apparent need to claim originality for our own recent breakthroughs and revolutions). Koerner (1988) traces much of our current sociolinguistic thought through Saussure by way of William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894)‚ citing the following crucial passage: Speech is not a personal possession but a social: it belongs‚ not to the individual‚ but to the member of society. No item of existing

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    the factors outside of language which relate to its users such as sociolinguistics. Sociolinguistics derived from the words ‘socio’ and ‘linguistics’‚ so sociolinguistics is a linguistics field which deals with language relate to social context and cultural phenomenon. It’s like what Hudson says in his book. He defined sociolinguistics as the study of language in relation to society.[2] Then‚ Trudgill said that Sociolinguistics is that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a

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    production‚ but takes many other forms…” (Tsu-tung‚ On Practice). Sociolinguistics and Sociology of Language The difference between Sociolinguistics and the sociology of language can be defined by a statement from an online global source of summary and reviews where it is stated that: Sociolinguistic differs from sociology of language. Sociolinguistics deal with the effect of society on the language. It includes

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    The King’s Speech (drama: about working through a speech impediment—phonetics/speech pathology/sociolinguistics) • The Gods Must Be Crazy (comedy: includes lots of a natively spoken click language—phonetics/typology) • Children of a Lesser God (drama: about deaf culture and American Sign Language—typology/sociolinguistics) • Rango (comedy: about creating identity through speech patterns—sociolinguistics/discourse analysis/phonetics) • Snowcake (comedy/drama: about what can go hilariously/profoundly

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    www.ccsenet.org/elt English Language Teaching Vol. 3‚ No. 3; September 2010 Sociolinguistic Competence and Malaysian Students’ English Language Proficiency Mohan K. Muniandy Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies‚ Kuala Pilah Campus‚ 72000 Kuala Pilah‚ Negeri Sembilan‚ Malaysia Tel: 60-6-483-2130/ 60-12-611-8478 E-mail: mohan691@.ns.uitm.edu.my Gopala Krishnan Sekharan Nair Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Academy of Language Studies‚ Dungun Campus‚ 23000

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    (2000:1) defines that sociolinguistic study the relationship between language and society. They are interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social context‚ and they are concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning. The way people talks are influenced by the social context in which they are talking. It matters who can hear us and where we are talking‚ as well as how we are feeling. Sociolinguistic is the study of the

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    investigated. It develops into sociolinguistics or the sociology of language. Fishman (in Chaer and Agustina‚ 2004:3) says that‚ ‘sociolinguistics is the study of the characteristics of language varieties‚ the characteristics of their functions‚ and the characteristics of the speaker as these three constantly interact‚ change and change one another within a speech community”. In addition‚ Holmes (2001:1) says that sociolinguistics is concerned with the relationship

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    study of speech. Introduction:    Sociolinguistics is a term including the aspects of linguistics applied toward the connections between language and society‚ and the way we use it in different social situations. It ranges from the study of the wide variety of dialects across a given region down to the analysis between the way men and women speak to one another. Sociolinguistics often shows us the humorous realities of human speech and how a dialect of a

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    improve their classes are the following: sociolinguistic‚ phonology linguistic and second language acquisition. All teachers must know how people speak in the society‚ to understand this topic we have sociolinguistic that is precisely what is responsible for studying the way people speak in a specific society. Sociolinguistic contains many fields which is very important to know because it could help us improve the classes. Why? According with sociolinguistic one of the aspect that it consider is

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    DIGLOSSIA Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns including the use of two or more language varieties in distinct social domains within the same speech community. In other words‚ the use of two distinct varieties of the same language for different functions. There are many societies where the official language that is used at schools or media is significantly different from that used at home or in ordinary conversations and often called a “dialect” or “vernacular”. Such a

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