Thursday, November 24, 2011

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.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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.