- "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."
Focuses on the social factors that influence the distribution and variation of dialects within a community, including age, gender, education, and ethnic identity.
Basic concepts of dialectology: This topic covers the fundamental terminology and concepts related to the study of dialects, including linguistic variation, standard language, speech communities, and linguistic boundaries.
Social variables in dialectology: This topic explores the social factors that influence dialect variation, such as age, gender, education, ethnicity, and social class.
Language contact and dialectology: This topic focuses on the effects of language contact on dialect variation, including borrowing, code-switching, and pidgin and creole languages.
Phonetic and phonological variation in dialectology: This topic examines the phonetic and phonological features of dialects, including vowel and consonant systems, tone, stress, and intonation patterns.
Morphological and syntactic variation in dialectology: This topic explores the morphological and syntactic features of dialects, including word formation, word order, and sentence structure.
Varieties of English dialects: This topic covers the different dialects of English spoken around the world, including British, American, Australian, and varieties spoken in African and Asian countries.
Variation in regional dialects: This topic examines the differences between dialects spoken in different regions, such as the North and South of England, the West and East Coast of the United States, and different regions within countries.
Variation in urban dialects: This topic explores the ways in which urbanization and migration have influenced dialects spoken in cities, including features such as slang, jargon, and dialect leveling.
Methods of dialectology research: This topic covers the different techniques used in dialectology research, including surveys, interviews, and linguistic analysis.
Sociolinguistic theories of dialectology: This topic explores the theoretical frameworks that underpin the study of dialects, including social network theory, language variation and change, and communities of practice.
Attitudes towards dialects: This topic examines the ways in which dialects are perceived and valued by different groups, including linguistic prejudice, language attitudes, and standardization.
Applications of dialectology: This topic covers the practical applications of dialectology research, including language teaching, linguistic policy, and forensic linguistics.
Geographical Dialectology: Studies the regional variation of linguistic features within a geographical area.
Urban Dialectology: Studies the city or urban variation of linguistic features within specific neighborhoods or social groups.
Historical Dialectology: Studies the linguistic changes and variations through time within a specific area or language community.
Sociolinguistics: Studies the relationship between language and social factors such as class, race, gender, and identity.
Ethnography of Communication: Studies the social and cultural norms governing communication practices within a particular community.
Linguistic Anthropology: Studies the social and cultural context in which language is used and developed.
Contact Linguistics: Studies the phenomenon of languages coming into contact with each other and the resulting linguistic changes.
Variation Studies: Studies the variation and diversity of language features within a specific area or community.
Computational Dialectology: Uses computational techniques to study and analyze dialect variation.
Cognitive Dialectology: Studies the cognitive processes underlying dialect variation and perception.
Phonological Dialectology: Studies the sound patterns and variations in dialects.
Morphological Dialectology: Studies the variations in word formation and structure in different dialects.
Syntactic Dialectology: Studies the patterns of sentence structure and word order in different dialects.
Lexical Dialectology: Studies the variations in vocabulary and word usage in different dialects.
Applied Dialectology: Applies the findings of dialectology to practical concerns such as language education, language policy, and language planning.
- "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."