- "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 contexts.
Language Variation: The study of how language varies across different regions, social groups, genders, ages, etc.
Language Change: The study of how languages evolve and change over time.
Language Acquisition: The study of how humans acquire language and the role social factors play in language development.
Language and Identity: The study of how language use reflects and shapes individuals' social identity.
Code-Switching: The study of how bilinguals or multilinguals switch back and forth between different languages in social situations.
Language Contact: The study of the linguistic and social effects that occur when two or more language groups come into contact with each other.
Dialectology: The study of regional varieties of language and how they differ from one another.
Language Planning and Policy: The study of government policies and planning efforts that affect language use and distribution in societies.
Language Attitudes and Stereotypes: The study of how people perceive and judge different varieties of language and their speakers.
Language and Gender: The study of how language reflects and reinforces gender norms and stereotypes.
- "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."