Task 2 introduction to linguistics

occur. Chambers (2002, p. 3) is even more direct: “Sociolinguistics is the study of
the social uses of language, and the most productive studies in the four decades of
sociolinguistic research have emanated from determining the social evaluation of
linguistic variants.
How does language or the use of the “meaning of words” become a tool of
Social and Political Power?
They are converted through an "interventionist" approach to issues that concern
society through politics. using “linguistics with a conscience and cause, one that
seeks to reveal how language is used and abused in the exercise of power and the
suppression of human rights” (Widdowson, 1998, p. 136).
Language is used to exercise and preserve power and privilege in society, in terms
of developing social power relations, reinforcing social institutions, and how even
those who suffer as a result fail to realize how many things that seem being 'natural'
and 'normal' are not at all so. They are not because it is the power relations in society
that determine who can say what and who can write what.
Politics, medicine, religion, education, law, race, gender, and academia can only be
understood for what they really are within the framework of critical discourse
analysis: as systems that maintain an unequal distribution of wealth. , income, status,
group affiliation, education, etc. Fairclough (2001, p. 6) expresses what he sees as
the failure of sociolinguistics to deal with such matters.
Why is it important to study Sociolinguistics?
Sociolinguistics is the study of language variation. It is important since the purpose
of such a study is to discover what variation tells us about language and the
speakers' "knowledge" of language, in this case, their unconscious awareness of
subtle linguistic differences.
However, a worthwhile sociolinguistics must be more than just a mix of linguistics
and sociology that takes concepts and findings from the two disciplines and tries to
relate them in a simple way. Certainly, it must go beyond Horvath's (1998, p. 448)
view that sociolinguists should choose freely from sociology: "Sociolinguists
periodically turn to sociology and to 'social networks' or 'the language market'" .
"...and we find these concepts terribly helpful in understanding the patterns that
emerge from our data.
The new society must give importance to social networks compared to other ways
of dealing with the structure of society and ignore whether or not these models have
become controversial within the discipline of the home.
Specific points of connection between language and society must be discovered,
and these must be related within theories that shed light on how linguistic and social
structures interact, or what is needed, according to Cameron (p. 62), is more
engagement. social for linguistics to deal with issues such as the production and