- "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 how language is used in social context.
Linguistics: The study of human language and its structure, including grammar, syntax, and phonetics.
Pragmatics: The study of language use in context, including the social and communicative functions of language.
Semantics: The study of the meaning of words, phrases, and sentences in both natural and formal languages.
Syntax: The study of the structure, formation, and arrangement of sentences and phrases in a language.
Phonetics: The study of sounds and their production, including speech sounds and their physical properties.
Sociolinguistics: The study of language within its social context, including language use and variation across different social groups.
Conversational analysis: The study of the structure and organization of conversation, including turn-taking and repair.
Discourse markers: The linguistic elements used to signal the structure and coherence of discourse, including discourse connectives and particles.
Text linguistics: The study of the organization and structure of texts, including the role of cohesion and coherence in creating meaning.
Narrative analysis: The study of the structure and function of stories, including how they are constructed and interpreted in different contexts.
Genre analysis: The study of the conventions and structures of different textual genres, including how they are used to shape meaning in different contexts.
Discourse analysis methods: The different methods employed in the analysis of discourse, including conversation analysis, corpus linguistics, and critical discourse analysis.
Multimodal discourse analysis: The analysis of discourse that includes multiple modes of communication, including visual, auditory, and written elements.
Critical discourse analysis: An approach to discourse analysis that focuses on the ways in which language is used to shape social and political power relations.
Cognitive discourse analysis: An approach to discourse analysis that focuses on the cognitive and conceptual aspects of language use, including the role of metaphor and discourse framing in shaping meaning.
Narrative Discourse: Tells a story or recounts a sequence of events with a beginning, middle, and end.
Descriptive Discourse: Describes or gives an account of a person, place or thing.
Persuasive Discourse: Convinces or persuades the listener or reader to take a particular action or accept a specific belief.
Expository Discourse: Provides information or explains a topic, concept, or idea in a clear and concise manner.
Metaphorical Discourse: Uses figures of speech or metaphorical language to make comparisons between two things.
Ironical Discourse: Uses irony or sarcasm to convey a different meaning from what is actually stated.
Analytical Discourse: Analyzes a situation or phenomenon by breaking it down into its constituent elements.
Academic Discourse: Uses technical or specialized language to discuss a particular subject or discipline.
Interpersonal Discourse: Addresses the social and psychological factors that affect communication between people.
Mediated Discourse: Occurs through the use of technology, including social media, chatbots or virtual assistants.
Legal Discourse: Uses a specialized language, including legal jargon, to describe and interpret laws or legal cases.
Scientific Discourse: Uses a technical or specialized language to explain and explore topics related to science.
Political Discourse: Concerned with the discussion and debate of political issues, policies or ideologies.
Religious Discourse: Concerned with religious beliefs, practices, and rituals.
Literary Discourse: Uses literary devices such as metaphor, simile, imagery, and symbolism to convey emotions, ideas, or themes.
- "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."