The Impact of Changes in Society on the Use of Languages

DOI

10.2991/soshec-17.2018.59How to use a DOI?

Keywords

language changes, communication, loss of languages

Abstract

Language as a means of communication undergoes some shifts or changes along with the changes of the society. This paper, therefore, seeks to explain some facts and look at the cause of language changes. The change in languages results from the internal and external factors of languages. In terms of external factors, the shift or change in the society is driven by such factors as communities, structures, and communication. Internally, language changes occur because new languages have emerged and old language has been forgotten and eventually lost. Specifically, changes initially take the form of a misuse of words. If the misuse grows substantially, it becomes a mess or un normative language. If users of un normative language multiply, then the language is transformed. For example, in Japanese there is a change that the process can not be observed, but the results of these changes can be described by the theory of sociolinguistics.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Djodjok Soepardjo
AU  - Mr Warsono
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Impact of Changes in Society on the Use of Languages
BT  - Proceedings of Social Sciences, Humanities and Economics Conference (SoSHEC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 290
EP  - 293
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/soshec-17.2018.59
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