A. Defenition of Sociolinguistics 1. Sociolinguistics is that part of linguistics which is concerned with language as a social and cultural phenomenon. It investigates the field of language and society & has close connections with the social sciences, especially social psychology, anthropology, human geography and sociology . ( P. Trudgill (1974: 32)) 2. Sociolinguistics ( micro-sociolinguistics ) is the study of language in relation to society. Sociology of language ( macro-sociolinguistics )is the study of society in relation to language. ( Hudson (1996, p. 4) ) In sociolinguistics we study language and society in order to find out as much as we can about what kind of thing language is, and in the sociology of language we reverse the direction of our interest. B. Speech Events Mrs. Rahmi : Do we have marker? Andi : Yes, we do mam. here you are. No Speakers (penutur) Speaker's identity (id