- "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."
How language acquisition and development vary across different cultures and contexts.
First Language Acquisition: Study of how infants and young children acquire their first language, including the stages and milestones of language development.
Second Language Acquisition: Study of how learners acquire their second or foreign language, including the factors that affect their learning process and strategies for enhancing acquisition.
Sociolinguistics: Study of the relationships between language and society, including issues related to dialects, accents, language variation, and language policy.
Psycholinguistics: Study of the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension, production, and acquisition, including factors such as memory, attention, motivation, and language input.
Cultural Anthropology: Study of human culture, customs, and social behavior, including the roles that language and communication play in shaping and reflecting cultural values and practices.
Linguistic Anthropology: Study of the role of language in shaping human culture and social behavior, including the ways in which language use and language choices reflect cultural values and identities.
Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Study of individuals who are proficient in more than one language, including the cognitive and psychological benefits of bilingualism and the challenges that arise when navigating between different linguistic and cultural contexts.
Language and Identity: Study of the ways in which language use and language choices reflect and shape individual and group identity, including issues related to language maintenance and language shift.
Language and Power: Study of the ways in which language use and language choices reflect and reinforce power hierarchies and social inequalities, including issues related to language discrimination, language policy, and language access.
Cultural Competence: Study of the importance of understanding and respecting cultural differences in communication, including strategies for enhancing cross-cultural communication and collaboration in a globalized world.
First Language Acquisition (FLA): The process of learning one's native language during infancy and early childhood without formal instruction.
Second Language Acquisition (SLA): The process of learning a second language after acquiring the first language. It can occur at any point in life and can be facilitated by formal instruction, immersion, or a combination of the two.
Foreign Language Acquisition (FLA): The process of learning a language that is not commonly spoken in one's community or country. This type of language acquisition is typically done for academic, professional, or personal reasons.
Heritage Language Acquisition (HLA): The process of learning a language that is spoken by one's ancestors or family members but is not the primary language used in everyday communication.
Simultaneous Bilingualism: The process of acquiring two languages at the same time from birth or early childhood.
Sequential Bilingualism: The process of acquiring a second language after the first language has already been developed.
Immersion Language Acquisition: The process of learning a language by being surrounded by it in a natural setting, such as living in a foreign country or attending a language immersion program.
Explicit Language Learning: The process of learning a language through formal instruction in a classroom setting, often characterized by explicit grammar rules, drills, and exercises.
Implicit Language Learning: The process of learning a language through exposure and interaction in naturalistic settings, with an emphasis on communication and meaning rather than explicit grammar instruction.
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL): The use of technology, such as software, internet-based resources, and mobile applications, to facilitate language learning.
Critical Language Learning: The process of learning a language to understand and engage in social or political issues, often with a focus on the language used by underrepresented or marginalized groups.
Sign Language Acquisition: The process of learning a visual-gestural language used by deaf or hard-of-hearing individuals. Sign language acquisition can be simultaneous or sequential, and often involves a different set of linguistic and communicative skills than spoken language acquisition.
- "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."