A Synthesis and Trends in Sociolinguistics Works.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to classified the studies in sociolinguistics, to synthesis the studies by the objectives, the samples, and the results of the studies in sociolinguistics, as well as, the trends in the studies.

          The results show that there are 5 different types in grouping the works, that are, using 1-5 linguistics factors. The most popular types using in these studies is using only one sociolinguistic factor. The research reveals that there are 8 linguistic factors, that are, age, sex, education, status, location, occupation, relationship, and satisfaction.

          Using the objectives, the samples, and the results of the study to synthesis the works in sociolinguistics, it is found that there are 4 objectives; language usage, language attitude, language vitality, and language maintenance. Three top most samples in these researches are age, sex, and location. Age can be divided into 2 groups; 2 groups of age and 3 groups of age. Sex can be divided into 2 groups; male and female, and male, female, and third sex. Whereas, location use as samples are from 2 and more.

          Sociolinguistics was studied since 2535 B.C. and are all studies as a master degree thesis because the aim of the studies are just to proved the theory in sociolinguistics.

Keywords: sociolinguistics, sociolinguistic factors, variation