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    http://www.helium.com/items/1688845-language-and-the-social-context  HUDSON‚ R. A. (1980) “Sociolinguistics”. London / New York‚ Cambridge University Press (Ch.2)  MEYERHOFF‚ M. (2006) “Introducing Sociolinguistics”. Taylor & Francis e-Library. (Ch.9)  SCHHIFFMAN‚ H.F. “Diglossia as a Sociolonguistic Situation”. South Asian Regional Studies University of Pennsylvania. http://www.modlinguistics.com/Sociolinguistics/diglossia/Diglossia%20as%20a%20Sociolinguistic%20Situation.htm

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    3.5 Implementation It is impossible to control all of the factors involved in language planning‚ social‚ political‚ and linguistic. Yet‚ an overall implementation plan is the most promising precaution for avoiding haphazard result (Rubin‚ 1971; Cooper‚ 1989). The Norwegian case exemplifies the risks involved in failure to design an implementation plan beforehand. Aasen’s and Knudsen’s proposed language norms gained recognition partly due to the nationalistic spirit of the time‚ and partly due to

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    Within the languages of the world lie an abundance of linguistic tools to express meaning and ideas. This inherent variability in is a fundamental and defining characteristic of language. Individually‚ each language possesses a spectrum of various registers which branch from the substrate and each are assigned distinctive linguistic features and guidelines. The processes by which formal and dialectical languages are produced and applied are defined by many varying conditions. As speakers‚ we call

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    THE STUDY OF STANDARD AND NON-STANDARD VARIATION FOUNDINLOVE ACTUALLY MOVIE THE FIRST PROJECT OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS SUBJECT Aprilliya Kartika Sari 101214009 Diana Chandra 101214010 Agnes Kenya Winanti 101214016 Fina 101214029 Yulianti 101214032 ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDUCATION STUDY PROGRAM DEPARTMENT OF LANGUAGE AND ARTS EDUCATION FACULTY OF TEACHERS TRAINING AND EDUCATION SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2013 ABSTRACT This paper is made to provide the real examples

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    “The Concept of Discourse Community‚” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis‚ by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also‚ that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community. In the beginning of Swales argument‚

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    practices‚ opening and closing sequences of social encounters‚ or narrative structure. The study of discourse has developed in a variety of disciplines-sociolinguistics‚ anthropology‚ sociology‚ and social psychology. Thus discourse analysis takes different theoretical perspectives and analytic approaches: speech act theory‚ interactional sociolinguistics‚ ethnography of communication‚ pragmatics‚ conversation analysis‚ and variation analysis (Schiffrin‚ 1994). Although each approach emphasizes different

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    An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Janet Holmes) Chapter One: What do sociolinguists study? - Sociolinguistics: a term that refers to the study of the relationship between language and society‚ and how language is used in multilingual speech communities. Q what aspects of language are Sociolinguists interested in? Sociolinguists are interested in explaining why people speak differently in different social contexts. And the effect of social factors such as (social distance‚ social status

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    TITLE PAGE MULTILINGUALISM IN NIGERIA: A BLESSING OR A CURSE? PREFACE Multilingualism is an issue that has become a subject of discussion in a variety of language related disciplines. Some researchers discuss multilingualism as a sociolinguistic concept through which issues of language contact and the status of the mother tongue can be interrogated. Others see multilingualism as a political matter‚ that is‚ an issue which requires solutions to language problems from the policy makers who are

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    Code Switching usually occurs in bilingual societies. The sociolinguistics aspect of Code Switching involves various factors including society‚ prestige‚ and education system and determines the reasons of Code Switching because of socio cultural environment. This research presents an analysis of Code Switching at NUML with in parameters of sociolinguistics context. However‚ data has been analysed only on Code Switched sociolinguistic patterns used by NUML students of Graduate Studies and analysis

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    1 Linguistics and sociolinguistics It is difficult to see adequately the functions of language‚ because it is so deeply rooted in the whole of human behaviour that it may be suspected that there is little in the functional side of our conscious behaviour in which language does not play its part. Sapir (1933) Language is a complicated business. In everyday talk‚ we use the word ‘language’ in many different ways. It isn’t clear how ‘language’ should be defined or what the person on the street thinks

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