Introduction to Sociolinguistics Sumarized by Tri Rina Budiwati

How Language and Society Have Co-relation?
Society: any group of people who are drawn together for a certain purpose or purposes. Meanwhile, Language: what the members of a particular society speak. the following is some brief language phenomena in society.

Brief Introduction Semantics as Linguistics Branches

The Term  of Semantics
Semantics is the study of MEANING in LANGUAGE. In the PAST, semantic debate has been largely concerned with discovering what ‘meaning’ is, as a concept in its own right. meanwhile, In modern linguistics, meaning is studied by making detailed analyses of the way words and sentences are used in specific contexts.

Language and Culture- Based On Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

The relationship between language, thought and ‘reality’ has fascinated linguists and philosophers for centuries. Two of them are Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf who are well-known for Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis or Whorfian Hypothesis.