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Sociolinguistics is, at first, a branch within linguistics
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Sociolinguistics appears to
emphasize that language and society are the two related aspects, that is,
language is related more to the society and also influence each other
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The aforementioned term, sociology of language, emphasizes, but
strongly, also the effects and influences of language and society on each other
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Sociolinguistics
focuses first on society then language; whereas sociology of language focuses
on language first then society
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Linguists assure, claim and argue about the relationship between language
with society, mainly sociolinguists
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Sapir and Whorf are
among the sociolinguists who emphasize that there is a relationship between
language and society
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In the perspective of Sapir, the relationship between language and society is
relativism
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in the perspective of both
sociolinguists, Sapir and Whorf, we sum up with the influence and unseparated
relationship between language and society
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Regardless of both determine and relative relationship between

language and society, some linguists oppose this idea
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Chomskey claims that language is universal and innate, to
state this clearly, he make his point clear in what he calls Universal Grammar
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Principals are features of all language, that is, what
languages have in common, whereas, parameters deal with where languages
differ from one another
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V
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S
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At this point, if we pay attention, we would find a kind of contradiction in
Chomskey‘s saying towards language and society
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Parameters, as mentioned above, prove the opposite of what
Chomskey claimed in the beginning
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The kid who was borne in
USA, once he/she started talking , he/she would start his/her sentence with (S V
O) whereas, the other kid in Morocco would start his/her sentence with (V S O)
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