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DIMENSIONS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS

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NIM: NO CASE THE QUESTION

1 Two little Maori girls are playing “School” in the classroom during the lunch-break. Mere is the teacher and Hine the pupil. Mere has written on the board “IT IS TEN O’CLOCK”. TIME FOR WORK”. A little boy, Tama puts his head in the door. Tama: Where’s Mrs. McLean? Mere: Dunno. She not here. Tama: You Sure? Hine: Mrs. McLean not here dummy! (a stupid person who has no common sense and no brain at all) Mere: Mrs. McLean isn’t around today. (Tama leaves at this point and Mere continues with her lesson.) Mere: Now Hine. You copy this carefully. Hine: Yes Miss. I am.

Please describe the choice had been made by Mere and Hine in the view of the standard and vernacular (bahasa daerah) English and please describe the sociolinguistic dimensions of solidarity (social distance), status (power) and formality. NOTE: Maori would have expressed solidarity, while English would have expressed formality and superior status.

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2 Coming from a very hot country with a “Water-Oriented Culture”, Paijo was not able to understand what her Britain hotel hostess meant

Supposed that you’re Paijo and please give your wise answer or any question and describe what’s the socio-cultural background on the mindset of Indonesian Paijo and

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when she asked “On which day of the week would you like to have your bath?”

the Britain hotel hostess.

YOUR ANSWER: 3 Mary: Well I don’t know how she puts up with (having

patience/enduring without complaining) him. Elizabeth: God he’s awful – a real dickhead (TABOO WORDS). I’m not kidding Mary: And he’s so rude. He interrupts her all the time and he puts her down (To bring to an end; repress)– even in front of her friends. Avril: she must be nuts. Mary: exactly – but he’s rolling of course. He gets two thousand dollars a shot as an after-dinner speaker. Avril: Yeah? Elizabeth: (singing) Can’t buy my love, can’t buy my love!

Women’s gossip focuses predominantly on personal experiences and personal relationships, on personal problems and feelings. It may include criticism of the behavior of others, but why women tend to avoid criticizing people directly? Please quote the sentences which show the woman solidarity affirmation to others.

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4 ATTITUDES TO AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH (AAVE) “…What makes me feel that blacks tend to be ignorant is that they fail to see that the word is spelled A-S-K not A-X. and when they say AKSED, it gives the sentence an entirely different meaning. And that is what I feel holds blacks back.” (Female Call-In Viewer, Oprah Winfrey Show, 1987)

Why African American people tend to use different varieties which are quite different with the standard American English? Please describe language as social and cultural identity! What about the usage of vernacular languages in Indonesia? (Javanese, Sundanese, Maduranese etc.)

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