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Language and Society

Language is both a system of communication between individuals and a social phenomenon. It is a medium, that allow individuals to understand each other.

Society is a group of people living together in a more or less ordered community.

These two are interconnected to each other. Thus we have an area called Sociolinguistics it aims to show how the use of language was influenced by different factors of a society such as gender, age, class, race, etc. It studies and explains why people speak differently in different social aspect, it is also aiming to explain the function of language and the way it is used in conveying meaning. Scrutinizing the way people use language in different surroundings provides a sum of information about how language functions (Hao & Chi, 2013). The study of sociolinguisticcan be dated to about the middle of the 20th century.Before that there were authors who commented on how language use was influenced or indeed guided by socially relevant factors, such as class, profession, age or gender. The well-known father of linguistic, Ferdinand de Saussure believes that it is a type of social behavior.

We also have a subsection of this area called anthropological linguistics which is concerned with form and use of language in different cultures and to what extentthe development of language has been influenced by cultural environment. Language and society are both reliant and connected to each other, language was being used by the society, it is upon the society on how well they will use and how they can improve the language, and so is it is vital for humanity to have a language that could understand by all. On the other hand, society is also important for a language to remain alive.