1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Writing
This paper is talking about society (human beings) and water. It can be said that
human beings cannot be separated with water. It cannot be denied that wter is one thing that
is very important hting for human beings to keep their lives. It can be realized that no
individual can live his life without the present of water. It is very similarly to the functions of
a language to human beings. Any people will agree that none can keep alive without the
present of language in his lives. It can be said that none can do anything without the present
of a langugage. It is as the same as the functions of water for human beings.
Sociolinguisticsis not simply an amalgam of linguistics and sociology (or indeed of
linguistics and any other of the social sciences). It embraces, in principle at least, every aspect
of the structure and use of language that relates to its social and cultural functions. It will be
clear enough from the present time that sociolinguistics is a very wide brief.
The study of language as part of culture and society has acquired the now commonly
accepted label 'sociolinguistics'. But any single name for such a vast field of inquiry would be
misleading if interpreted too literally. Just as the study of culture and society cannot be the
prerogative of any one discipline, so that of their linguistic aspects cannot properly be
represented as some kind of amalgam of sociology and linguistics. It is-instructive to consider
the spread of expressions which have been used at one time or another, including: 'the
sociology of language', 'social linguistics', 'sociological linguistics', 'anthropological
linguistics", 'linguistic anthropology', 'ethnolinguistics', and 'the ethnography of
communication'. Furthermore, what may be the most fruitful growing points for future
development (namely, where linguistics meets with social anthropology and social
psychology) are not likely to be terminologically recognized at all, for obvious reasons
1.2 The Problems of this Writing
In writing a writing skill there can be stated various problems. In this writing that
the problems statements are listed as follows. It is not strange for the society about the terms
of society and water, but to the statements what they are may become new and a little bit
complicated.
a) What is human being?
b) What is water?
c) How do human beings and water related to one another?
1.3 The Scopes of Writing
In writing something there can be tramendous things to be talked about. Therefore
while someone wants to write he needs to make a limitation to his writing to be made it as a
guide line. In this writing, the writer will write down the description of socieiety or human
beings and so the description of water. The writer will write also the uses of water for the
human beings. In describing the water he will also write down the descriptions of water body.
1.4 The Purposes of Writing
There are two main points in writing this paper. One, he is interested in finding the
relationship between water and human beings. It seems to the writer that water is very
important and crucial for the life of human beings, but sometimes it can be seen that water
make disaster to human beings. Two, the writer of this paper is one of the seniors students of
the Diploma Programe of the English Department at the Faculty of Science Study of North
Sumatera University and wishes to finish his study. And one the requrement to it is to make a
writing skill and report it to the Deparment, therefore he is writing the use of water for human
1.5 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
There are possibilities to be writen to a topic of writing skill to be made as the
repoting of a final task for a student in order to finished his study from the Diploma Programe
of English Department at the Faculty of Culture Study of North Sumatera University, but on
this circumstance the writer is interested in writing the human beings and its relation to the
water. This topic is relatively new since there has been none has ever written on it. There can
be many scolar have written about society and so water, but they have never been talked as
the writer of this paper writes in this writing.
1.6 The Methods of Writing
When someone wants to write something there can be some methods he applies to
the writing. The choice of the method will be dealing with technique he applies in order to get
the data for further analysis. On this occasion the writer of this paper applies the method of
library deals with the technique he finds the data. In order to find the data he collects some
books which are dealing with the water, therefore he finds the data through written texts.
Although he uses field method in order to get some additional data, but the main data are
