Sociolinguistics

Topic: "What Is Sociolinguistic?

1)  The study of the relationship between language and society, of language variation, and of attitudes about language.
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2)  A branch of anthropological linguistics that studies how language and culture are related, and how language is used in different social contexts.
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3)  A study of the relationship between language and social factors such as class, ethnicity, age and sex.
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4) .The study of language in social contexts.
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5) The study of the sociological factors involved in the use of language, including gender, race, class, etc
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6) The study of stylistic and social variation of language (vernacular).
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7) The study of language in relation to its socio-cultural context.
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8)   Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context on the way language is used.
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9)  The study of social and cultural effects on language.
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《In all these definitions, it is clear that sociolinguistics is a discipline that yokes sociology with linguistics. It is a branch of sociology and as a concept, it is concerned with how language use is a determinant of a given society’s linguistic requirements. Every society has linguistic codes acceptable for communication and interaction. Sociolinguistics show how groups in a given society are separated by certain social variables like ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, age, etc. and how adherence to these variables is used to categorise individuals in social class or socio-economic classes. The social study of language is a modern linguistic paradigm because it was the modern linguists who first acknowledged and accepted that language by its nature is totally a social phenomenon. All the definitions here acknowledge that sociolinguistics has to do with language use and a society’s response to it》