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"Through learning language, we learn about culture.
Through learning about culture, we learn respect for others.
Through learning respect for others, we can hope for peace."



















Learning activities

Learning activity 1.1.
a. Research these terms: Sociolinguistics, Behaviour, Repertoire, Domain, Register, Style, Formality, Community,Diglossia and Polyglossia.




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: a termthat refers to the study of the relationship between language and society, and how language is used in multilingual speech communities.


SOCIOLINGUISTICS as you know is that branch of linguistics dealing with the influence of the society on language and vice-versa. Under this branch we deal with the problems faced in learning a language or, to say how a language is acquired and also how alanguage is modified according to different social circumstances. Sociolinguistics is an integral part in the study of language in common, and in the study of the impact of society over language. So, it is really important in the sphere of the study of language.






Behaviour is the range of actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with theirenvironment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment. It is the response of the system or organism to various stimuli or inputs, whether internal or external, conscious or subconscious, overt or covert, and voluntary or involuntary.

The social behaviour is followed by the social action, that goes to other people and it is designed to induce ananswer, definitive, can say that the social behaviour is a communication process. The natural languages usually are based on sonorous symbols but also languages based on signs can exist.

The ethnic language evolves framed by a culture of native speaking that use this language with a communicative purpose. Of this form, one distinguishes between languages such as the Quechua, the Spanish and theEnglish, which are ethnic languages.



Linguistic repertoire is defined as the totality of linguistic varieties used in different social contexts by a particular community of speakers. It refers to the set of distinguishable code varieties from which the speakers of certain speech community can choose to be used, in certain social context of speaking.


Domain
Domains of language use, aterm popularised by an American sociolinguist, Joshua Fishman
A domain of language involves typical interactions between typical participants in typical settings about a typical topic. Examples of these domains are family, friendship, religion, education and employment.




Register,
In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particularsocial setting. For example, when speaking in a formal setting an English speaker may be more likely to adhere more closely to prescribed grammar, pronounce words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal (e.g. "walking", not "walkin'"), choose more formal words (e.g. father vs. dad, child vs. kid, etc.), and refrain from using the word ain't, than when speaking in an informalsetting.


Style
In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants to which specific social meanings are attributed. In this context, social meanings can include group membership, personal attributes, beliefs, etc.
Linguistic variation is at the heart of the concept of linguistic style — without the existence of variation there would be no basis for distinguishing social meanings....