- "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 study of the relationship between language and culture, including multiculturalism and diversity.
Introduction to Applied Linguistics: An overview of the field of Applied Linguistics, its history, scope, and sub-disciplines.
Language Variation and Change: An introduction to the study of how language varies across different contexts, social groups, and historical periods.
Language and Gender: The study of how gender influences the use and interpretation of language, including topics such as language ideology, linguistic bias, and the social construction of gender.
Language and Power: The study of how language is used to exert power and control in social and political contexts, including analysis of language policy, language planning, and language rights.
Language and Identity: The study of how language is used to construct and express individual and group identities, including language socialization, language attitudes, and language crossing.
Multilingualism and Language Contact: The study of how languages interact and influence each other in multilingual contexts, including language borrowing, code-switching, and language contact phenomena.
Language and Education: The study of how language is taught and learned in formal and informal settings, including topics such as second language acquisition, bilingual education, and language assessment.
Discourse Analysis: The study of how language is used to create meaning in social and cultural contexts, including analysis of various types of discourse such as narratives, conversations, and media discourse.
Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and society, including analysis of language attitudes, language variation, and language change.
Corpus Linguistics: The study of language through the analysis of large datasets, including the study of language use in different contexts, genres, and registers.
Pragmatics: The study of how language is used in context to achieve communicative goals, including the analysis of speech acts, implicature, and politeness.
Critical Discourse Analysis: A critical approach to discourse analysis that emphasizes the relationship between language, power, and social change, including analysis of various forms of discourse such as political discourse, media discourse, and institutional discourse.
Language in the Workplace: The study of how language is used in work-related contexts, including analysis of workplace discourse, language use in meetings, and the negotiation of professional identities.
Language and Technology: The study of the impact of technology on language use and communication, including analysis of text messaging, social media, and computer-mediated communication.
Applied Linguistics in the Community: The study of how Applied Linguistics can be used to promote social change and improve communication in various community contexts, including analysis of language planning, language policy, and community-based language programs.
Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and society, including language variation, language attitudes and usage, language change and acquisition, and the social context of language use.
Discourse analysis: The study of language use in context, with a focus on how speakers use language to construct meaning in conversation, texts, and other communicative acts.
Pragmatics: The study of language use in context, with a focus on how speakers use language to achieve specific communicative goals, including the role of context, culture, and social norms.
Language policy and planning: The study of how language policies and planning decisions are made, implemented, and evaluated, including the role of language ideologies, power relations, and globalization.
Language and identity: The study of how language use is related to the construction and negotiation of individual and group identities, including gender, ethnicity, and social class.
Multilingualism and language contact: The study of the social, cultural, and linguistic factors that shape the use of multiple languages in different contexts.
Language and culture: The study of the relationship between language and culture, including how language use reflects and reinforces cultural norms, values, and beliefs.
Language and cognition: The study of how language use is related to cognitive processes, including memory, attention, and reasoning.
Applied linguistics and language teaching: The application of linguistic theories and research to the teaching and learning of second and foreign languages.
- "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."