Social Factors Found in The Story of How I Went to School

Abstract

This paper aims at revealing social factors happened in a short story by Tera Fabiánová called How I went to School. Sociolinguistics theory was used to collect the data which was how the social factors are depicted through the story. The results of the analysis presented that social factors in the story were speaker and setting/scene. In speaker, it was found certain aspects such as class, position, age, and relations. Moreover, in setting, three aspects were identified namely crowd, private, and group. Moreover, this story gives a moral value to the audience, that education is a powerful thing to change people’s lives in order to have a brighter future.

Keywords: Social factors, Linguistics theory, Tera Fabiánová, How I Went to School