The Power of Social Class and Its Impact to Language Use

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to know how social class particularly nobility affected the language use within the people of Sukadana village. Sukadana Village is a place in which most of the people are belonging to nobility. The phenomena in the society dealing with language use and the culture of society in term of how they treat the language become the interest of the discussion in this paper. Research design is qualitative descriptive. The data gathered which by means of interview and voice recording. The data was analyzed by the way of transcribing and describing such as words, sentences, and utterances. Furthermore, every theory relates to the topic was selected to support the idea. In the daily life, the power of social class and the manifestation of nobility have an impact to the language within people of Sukadana Village.

Readings in Language Shift Studies from the Past to the Present: Review Article

“…In this regard, a number of concepts are found in the literature which are either synonymous with LS, like language loss, and language attrition, or related to it, including: language and social class, language and identity, language maintenance, bilingualism, and English hegemony. The following are general explanations, including definitions, applied to these concepts: Irawan (2018) states that there is a condition in which people are divided into some categories in term of language use. More specifically, he explains that some factors such as education, occupation, income, etc.…”