General linguistics 10.pptVIP

Chapter 10 Sociolinguistics—the study of language and society 10.1 What is sociolinguistics? 10.2 The methods of enquiry 10.3 Varieties of language 10.4 Language contact 10.1 What is sociolinguistics? Sociolinguistics is the field that studies the relation between language and society, between the users of language and the social structures in which the users of language live. In the thirty years or so that it has been recognized as a branch of the scientific study of language, sociolinguistics has grown into one of the most important of the “hyphenated” fields of linguistics. Sociolinguis