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Language Choice in Multilingual Communities

 


1.       Choosing variety or code

Variety is sociolinguistic term referring to language in context. A variety is aset of linguistic forms used under spesific social circumstances, i.e., with a distinctive social distribution. Variety is therefore a broad term which includes different accents, different linguistic styles, different dialects and even different language which contrast with each other for social reasons.

The factors that lead someone to choose one code rather than another:

·         Kind of social factors like social distance, status, formality, andfunctional

·         Chracteristics of the users

·         The other people he is talking to or own linguistic repertoire

Domains of language use in area of human activity in which one particular variety or combination of several variety used. Typical domains in a speech community are family, region, education, employment, and friendship. Meanwhile, domain spesific factors are addressee, setting and topic.

2.       Diglossia

Polyglossia is the situation where more than two language are used in community, for example a Polyglossic country is Singapore, where one can speak  dialect of Chinese to her/his parents and speak English with friends at school.

 

3.       Code-switching or Code mixing

Code-switch is where someone uses one language at one moment and then switch to another language in complete sentence. The reasons for code-switch are change of social situation, change of topic, affective and methaporical.

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