现代语言学Chapter8.docVIP

Chapter 8 Socio-linguistics 社会语言学 What is socio-linguistics? 什么是社会语言学？ Sociolinguistics is the sub-discipline of linguistics that studies language in social contexts. 社会语言学是语言学的一个分支，它研究社会环境中的语言。 Language variation 语言变异 Speech community 言语社区 In sociolinguistic studies, speakers are treated as members of social groups. The social group isolated for any given study is called speech community. A speech community thus defined as a group of people who form a community (which may have as few members as a family or as many member as a country), and share the same language or a particular variety of la