M • Lailul Muthi’ah

E • Kurnia Sahala Habeahan

M • Zakiyatil Fakhiroh
B • Fazril Dwi Lestari
E • Nisa Mutmainah
R • Muhammad Arif
S • Farida Karista
 Discourse and Society
2.1 Discourse communities and speech communities
2.2 Speech communities and spoken and written discourse
2.3 Discourse and language choice
2.4 Discourse, social class and social networks
2.5 Discourse and gender
2.6 Discourse and sexuality
2.7 Discourse and identity
2.8 Discourse and ideology
Discourse Communities and
Speech Communities
Discourse Community
• A group of people who share
some kind of activity
Speech Community
• Group of people that speak the
same language. Or they share
some other aspects
Discourse Communities and
Speech Communities
• Communities: group of people
who share substantial amounts
of time together.
• Collectives: groups of people
that form around a single
repeated interest.
• Networks: groups of people that
are not as tightly knit as speech
communities.
 Speech communities and
spoken and written discourse
• A group of people who
use the same variety of a
language, and who share
specific rules for
speaking and
interpreting speech,
such as: social, political,
geographical factors, etc.
 Discourse and Language Choice
The people use the language choice in order to
communicate accurately they may choose a
language. It determined by the domain the
language is being used in, such as with family,
among friends, and in religious, educational and
employment settings.

We have linguistic repertoire

 Discourse, Social Class
and Social Networks
Social class
• Structure of the class: education,
socioeconomic and cultural background
Social networks
• The people represent different orders of
generalization about social organization
 Discourse and gender
• Relationship between the use of
language and the biological category of
sex
Gender: as a social category. Only one part of a
person’s social identity.
Sex: by nature, biologically.
 Discourse and sexuality
• The relationship between language and
sexuality further complicates the topic of
gender and discourse by adding the notion of
desire.
Sexuality: notion of desire; person’s intimate
desire for connection to others that exceeds
their conscious control
 Discourse and Identity
We can find social variables and social
identities through the use of language. The
ways in which people display their identities
includes the way they use language and the
way they interacxt with people
 Discourse and Ideology
• Ideologies are defined as basic shared systems of
social cognitions of groups. They control group
attitudes (e.g. about immigration, abortion,
divorce, etc.) and mental models of group
members about specific events and experiences.