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Chapter 16

This document provides a summary of 15 chapters that discuss various topics in sociolinguistics, including language choice in multilingual communities, linguistic varieties, national and regional dialects, gender and language, language change, politeness and communication across cultures, and the relationship between language and culture. The chapters examine how social factors influence language use and how acquiring sociolinguistic competence involves understanding social norms for language use in different contexts.

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Chapter 16

This document provides a summary of 15 chapters that discuss various topics in sociolinguistics, including language choice in multilingual communities, linguistic varieties, national and regional dialects, gender and language, language change, politeness and communication across cultures, and the relationship between language and culture. The chapters examine how social factors influence language use and how acquiring sociolinguistic competence involves understanding social norms for language use in different contexts.

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CHAPTER 16

CONCLUSION
BY
SITI NORAINI BINTI JAHIDIN
SITI NORAIN BINTI JAHIDIN
Sociolinguistics competence
• Defined as the knowledge that enabled people to use language appropriately in a
range of diverse social contexts.
•Using language appropriately involves knowing the sociolinguistic rules for
speaking in a community, It means understanding the influence of social factors
on speech behaviour and vice-versa
Chapter 2: Language • choosing the appropriate variety or code to use in such
Choice in multilingual communities.
communities
Chapter 3: Language • The difference in the linguistic repertoire in different
maintenance and shift generations.
• How do economic and political factors influence language
choices?
• The process of language shift and language death
• Language revivals
Chapter 4: Linguistic • the relative status and functions of different languages in
varieties and multilingual multilingual communities
nations - Vernacular, Standard languages, lingua franca and Pidgin
and creole
Chapter 5: National • The status of languages from a macro level
languages and national • The process of developing languages for high-level functions
planning
Chapter 6: Regional • focus on language variation in multilingual
and social dialects communities.
• illustrate the way people use language to signal and
enact their membership of particular groups
Chapter 7: Gender • Examine how to speak appropriately for our gender
and age and age group, and to actively construct our social
identities.

Chapter 8 : • illustrates the relevance of ethnicity and social


Ethnicity and social networks in accounting for people’s speech patterns
networks • introducing a related concept, the community of
practice.
Chapter 9: • explore the contribution of social factors to language
Language change change in a community.
Chapter 10: Style, context • features of the different speech styles that people use in
and register socially distinct situations
Chapter 11: Speech function, • the ability to use language effectively and politely to different
politeness cross-cultural people is important.
communication
Chapter 12: Gender, • acquiring sociolinguistic competence involves recognizing the
politeness and stereotypes different ways in which women and men interact in a
community.
• Sexist language constructs and reinforces negative
stereotypes of women
Chapter 13: Language, • explores the relationship between language, thought and
cognition and culture culture, and the issue of the extent to which learning a
language also involves acquiring a particular worldview.
Chapter 14: Analysing • focuses on a specific aspect of sociolinguistic competence, our
discourse ability to manage discourse in a range of social contexts.
Chapter 15: Attitudes and • extends the discussion of the relevance of concepts such as
applications power and status in sociolinguistics in relation to language
attitudes in particular.

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