Open AccessEpistemological Challenges Against Sociolinguistics
Author(s) -
Iskandarsyah Siregar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of linguistics studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2754-2599
DOI - 10.32996/ijls.2021.1.2.6
Subject(s) - sociolinguistics , linguistics , sociocultural linguistics , sociology , sociolinguistics of sign languages , sociology of language , applied linguistics , epistemology , language education , quantitative linguistics , natural language , philosophy , comprehension approach , manually coded language
Sociolinguistics is a linguistics science that seeks to express the values of life that are revealed in language. Sociolinguistics is stuck in the study of language, which is purely empirical. This assessment can be observed when sociolinguistics only comes to the study of language, which reveals the linguistic system. It is essential to point out the other side of sociolinguistics that has not been explored, namely the aspect of language meaning. In this case, epistemology tries to challenge the existence of sociology concerning the role and function of sociolinguistics itself. Through literature study, Hermeneutics and heuristics are consistently and consistently used as the basis for the research method in this case. It can be concluded that sociolinguistics must begin to view language as a form of culture that becomes a social system and acts as a tool for human development.