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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.
In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings. In this context, social meanings can include group membership, personal attributes, or beliefs. In this context, social meanings can include group membership, personal attributes, or beliefs.
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
In the field of sociolinguistics, social network describes the structure of a particular speech community.Social networks are composed of a "web of ties" (Lesley Milroy) between individuals, and the structure of a network will vary depending on the types of connections it is composed of.
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. [1] An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity (an ethnolect), their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their ...
The Sociolinguists category is a listing of individuals working in or associated with the field of Sociolinguistics. Pages in category "Sociolinguists" The following ...
In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking officially or in a public setting, an English speaker may be more likely to follow prescriptive norms for formal usage than in a casual setting, for example, by pronouncing words ending in -ing with a velar nasal instead of an alveolar nasal ...
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?"