Introduction of Sociolinguistics and describes Language variation, Linguistic relativity, and Languages in contact

1. Introduction of Sociolinguistics and describes
Language variation, Linguistic relativity, and
Languages in contact
Name : Solanki Sardarsinh
Roll No :24 Semester : 3 Year : 2014-15
Paper 12 : English Language Teaching-1
Submitted to:
Smt. S.B.Gardi
Department Of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University

2. What is Sociolinguistics ?
 Sociolinguistic can
help us understand
why we speak
differently in various
social contexts and
help uncover the
social relationship in
a community.

3. Mixture of languages
 Place to place
 Audience to audience
 One group speakers shows language differences
when compare to another group of speakers

4. Micro-sociolinguis
tics
Macro-sociolinguis
tics
Sociolinguistics

5. Linguistic
Relativity
Language
Variation
Languages
in Contact
Sociolinguistics

6. Language Variation
 Variation in language use among speakers or groups of
speakers is a notable criterion or change that may
occur in pronunciation, word choice or, even preferences
for particular grammatical pattern concern in
sociolinguistics.
 The style of language pronunciation or pattern in
speaking is different in context of place or situation.

7. Pidginisation: Simplified language made up of past of
two or more languages use as a communication between
speakers whose narrative language are different.
Creolisation: It creates the new language with the help
of the mixture of two languages. It creates by generally of
succeeding generation.
Decreolisation: A gradual decreolisation process can
occur as speakers incorporate features from a dominant
language. It means to deconstruct the language.

8. Linguistic Relativity
 Research on cross-cultural miscommunication explores
communicative failures occasioned by the fact that
seemingly equivalent language can function quite
differently in different culture.
 Hymes coined the term ‘ethnography of speaking’ to
describe the task of the researcher who is ‘concerned
with the situation and uses, the pattern and functions, of
speaking’.

9. Language in Contact
 Language contact occurs when two or more languages
or varieties interact. The study of language contact is
called contact linguistic.
Code-Switching: Which occurs when bilingual
speakers switch from one language to another in the same
discourse, sometimes within the same utterance.