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Sociology of language is the study of the relations between language and society. [1] It is closely related to the field of sociolinguistics , [ 2 ] which focuses on the effect of society on language.
The two types of language codes are the elaborated code and the restricted code. The restricted code is suitable for insiders who share assumptions and understanding on the topic, whereas the elaborated code does not assume that the listener shares these assumptions or understandings, and thus elaborated code is more explicit, more thorough, and does not require the listener to read between ...
(1977) "Towards a Theory of Language in Ethnic Group Relations." In: Giles H (ed) Language, ethnicity and intergroup relations. London: Academic Press. Giles Howard and Johnson Patricia (1987) "Ethnolinguistic Identity Theory: A Social Psychological Approach to Language Maintenance." International Journal of the Sociology of language 68: 69–99.
Renaud Sainsaulieu (1936–2002), French sociologist concerned with the sociology of organizations Henri de Saint-Simon (1760–1825), French philosopher and social thinker Patricia Salas O'Brien (born 1958), Peruvian sociologist and Minister of Education
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Joshua Fishman (Yiddish: שיקל פֿישמאַן — Shikl Fishman; July 18, 1926 – March 1, 2015) was an American linguist who specialized in the sociology of language, language planning, bilingual education, and language and ethnicity.
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.
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.