Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the interaction between society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context and language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language , which focuses on the effect of language on society.
Sociohistorical linguistics, or historical sociolinguistics, is the study of the relationship between language and society in its historical dimension.A typical question in this field would, for instance, be: "How were the verb endings -s and -th (he loves vs. he loveth) distributed in Middle English society" or "When did people use French, when did they use English in 14th-century England?"
Cognitive sociolinguistics; Communication accommodation theory; Communicative competence; Complimentary language and gender; Context (linguistics) Contextualization (sociolinguistics) Contrastive focus reduplication; Corpus-assisted discourse studies; Covert prestige; Critical discourse analysis; Critical language awareness; Curvilinear principle
Historical linguistics, also known as diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of how languages change over time. [1] It seeks to understand the nature and causes of linguistic change and to trace the evolution of languages.
The Journal of Sociolinguistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers topics in sociolinguistics. Its scope encompasses a wide range of languages treated from a multidisciplinary point of view. It was established in 1997 and appears four times a year.
Sociocultural linguistics is a term used to encompass a broad range of theories and methods for the study of language in its sociocultural context. Its growing use is a response to the increasingly narrow association of the term sociolinguistics with specific types of research involving the quantitative analysis of linguistic features and their correlation to sociological variables.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, [1] involving analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. [2]Language use was first systematically documented in Mesopotamia, with extant lexical lists of the 3rd to the 2nd Millennia BCE, offering glossaries on Sumerian cuneiform usage and meaning, and phonetical vocabularies of foreign languages.
While anthropological linguistics uses language to determine cultural understandings, sociolinguistics views language itself as a social institution. [2] Anthropological linguistics is largely interpretative, striving to determine the significance behind the use of language through its forms, registers, and styles. [1]