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Language Attitudes

Group 3

Erni

Fitri Puji W.

Popy Tria M.

Rania Nur Cahya P.

Language Attitude

Semantic Shift

Semantic Derogation

Social Identity Theory

The CAT

LANGUAGE ATTITUDES

Language attitudes is how our attitude using

language for communication each other.

It show how language attitudes towards other

people are expressed through language.

SEMANTIC SHIFT

Semantic shift is the evolution of word usage usually to the

point that the modern meaning is radically different from the

original usage. In diachronic (or historical) linguistics,

semantic change is a change in one of the meanings of a word.

Every word has a variety of senses and connotations , which

can be added, removed, or altered over time, often to the

extent that cognates across space and time have very

different meanings.

Girl

A child of

either sex,

knave girl

(1290)

A female

child

unmarried

woman

(1530)

A

sweetheart,

lady-love

(1648)

A prostitue

or mistress

(1711)

A black

woman

(1835)

Tart A delicios

baked pastry

(1430)

A young

woman for

whom some

affection is

felt

A female

prostitue

(1887)

A young

favourite of

an older

man, a

catamite, a

male

prostitue

(1935)

Semantic shift over time

SEMANTIC DEROGATION

Some words can be used to either gender but in an unequal way. Some words can bear positive connotation for men while the very same word can have (strong) negative connotations

for women, this is what is meant by semantic derogation.

Men

He is a professional She is a professional

Women

Someone who fulfills his job and taks excellently

The woman is a prostitute

According to James (2002) :

Social identity is self personality in social interaction, where

someone can judges ourselves, not only physically but also familiy,

environment, clan, economy, education, etc.

Social Identity Theory (SIT)

The CAT (Communication Accomodation Theory)

According to Giles (1973) there are two important sociolingustics

concepts in the theory, namely:

CONVERGENCE

DIVERGENCE

Convergence refers to the positive attitude shown by a speaker

towards the listener by adjusting the features of his/her

language (the pronouncation, accent, vocabulary, structure) so

that he/she is understood and accepted.

Convergence

Divergence is a concept reflecting a languange attitude

that takes an opposite direction from the convergence.

It refers to a separation shown by a speaker from the

listener’s language.

Divergence

conclusion

This topic has reviewed several rather different approaches

to the study of language attitudes. It has tried to make the

case for including attitudes about language and about

different users of language as an important part of

sociolingistics, including te study of variation which generally

relies almost exclusively on data from production and avoid

issue related to preception.

Thanks for

your attention