ABSTRACT
Language and society closely influence to each other. Seemingly, the relation between language and society or culture was claimed by Sapir and Whorf hypothesis or Whorfian hypothesis. It is extensively referred in terms of language and culture as Sapir (1929b: 207, cited in Wardhaugh, 1986: 212) showed clearly summarized that human being do not live in the world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. Montgomery (2008: 236) points out the social relation, language and culture that different cultures draw upon language in the conduct of their every day interactions of which relate to relationship between member and society. So language is not only medium of communication for society but it also plays crucial role to politic and government. The headlines in any country have been implied what is interested in people and government. The linguistics concept which can explain the relation between newspaper headlines and its society is Sociolingusitics. Hudson (1988: 4) defined sociolinguistics as the study of language in relation to society. Spolsky (2006: 3) states that Sociolinguistics is the field that studies the relation between language and society, between the user of language and the social structures in which the users of language live. The newspapers headlines as the user of language are implied the social structures by report the foreign news which relate to political behavior. Sociolinguistics, therefore, is a field of study that assumes that human society is made up of many related pattern and behaviors, some of which
are linguistics. Trudgill (1984: 14) explains the two aspects of language behaviors that it is very important from social point of view. The first aspect is the function of language in establishing social relationship and the second aspect is the role played by language in conveying information about people. Seemingly, the newspaper headline is able to display the relationship between language and society by selecting what is interested in readers to be headline.
