- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used."
The relationship between language and culture, including how language reflects and shapes cultural practices and beliefs.
Language Acquisition: How humans acquire language skills from early childhood to adulthood, including the stages of language development and the role of linguistic environment in language acquisition.
Sociolinguistics: The study of social and cultural factors that influence language use, including social status, ethnicity, gender, and regional dialects.
Semiotics: The study of how meaning is created and communicated through symbols, including language and non-verbal communication.
Pragmatics: The study of how language is used in context, including the social and cultural implications of language use.
Language and Identity: The relationship between language and personal and group identities, including language diversity and language maintenance.
Cross-Cultural Communication: The study of how cultural differences and communication styles can affect communication in different cultural contexts.
Language Change and Evolution: The study of how languages evolve over time, including language acquisition, language death, and language revitalization.
Language Contact: The study of how different languages influence each other in contact situations, including borrowing, code-switching, and pidgin and creole languages.
Language and Power: The relationship between language use and power dynamics in society, including issues of language prejudice, discrimination, and language policy.
Linguistic Anthropology: The interdisciplinary study of language and culture, including the relationship between language and other aspects of social life, such as kinship, religion, and economics.
Historical Linguistics: The study of language changes and their evolution over time.
Sociolinguistics: The study of how language is used in society and how it reflects social norms and structures.
Psycholinguistics: The study of how people acquire, process, and produce language.
Neurolinguistics: The study of the neural mechanisms involved in language processing and production.
Computational Linguistics: The study of the computer algorithms and programs used to process and analyze language.
Anthropological Linguistics: The study of the relationship between language and culture, including how language shapes and is shaped by cultural practices.
Applied Linguistics: The study of how language can be applied in practical contexts, such as language teaching, translation, and interpretation.
Corpus Linguistics: The study of language using large electronic collections of written and spoken texts.
Discourse Analysis: The study of how language is used in context, including the relationship between language and power.
Pragmatics: The study of how language is used in specific situations to achieve communicative goals.
Semantics: The study of meaning in language, including how words and sentences are interpreted.
Syntax: The study of the structure of sentences and the rules governing how words are combined to form them.
Phonology: The study of the sound patterns of language.
Morphology: The study of the structure of words, including how words are formed and how they can be inflected or changed.
Lexicography: The study of dictionaries and how they are compiled, including the principles and practices of lexicography.
- "It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society."
- "Sociolinguistics is closely related to linguistic anthropology."
- "Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation with anthropology can be observed in studies of how language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables and/or geographical barriers."
- "Such studies examine how such differences in usage and differences in beliefs about usage produce and reflect social or socioeconomic classes."
- "As the usage of a language varies from place to place, language usage also varies among social classes."
- "Sociolinguistics can be studied in various ways such as interviews with speakers of a language, matched-guise tests, and other observations or studies related to dialects and speaking."
- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used."
- "Sociolinguistics is closely related to linguistic anthropology."
- "Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics."
- "Such studies also examine how such differences in usage and differences in beliefs about usage produce and reflect social or socioeconomic classes."
- "Such studies examine how language varieties differ between groups separated by...geographical barriers (a mountain range, a desert, a river, etc.)."
- "Sociolinguistics studies language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables."
- "The sociology of language focuses on the effect of language on society."
- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms."
- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used."
- "Language usage also varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies."
- "Sociolinguistics can be studied in various ways such as...matched-guise tests."
- "Such studies examine how language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables (e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, age, etc.)."
- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society... Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation with anthropology can be observed in studies of how language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables and/or geographical barriers."