sociolinguistics (n.)

A branch of LINGUISTICS which studies all aspects of the relationship between LANGUAGE and society. Sociolinguists study such matters as the linguistic identity of social groups, social attitudes to language, STANDARD and non-standard forms of language, the patterns and needs of national language use, social VARIETIES and LEVELS of language, the social basis of MULTILINGUALISM, and so on. An alternative name sometimes given to the subject (which suggests a greater concern with sociological rather than linguistic explanations of the above) is the sociology of language. Any of the branches of linguistics could, in principle, be separately studied within an explicitly social perspective, and some use is accordingly made of such terms as sociophonetics and sociophonology, when this emphasis is present, as in the study of the properties of ACCENTS. In HALLIDAYAN linguistics, the term sociosemantics has a somewhat broader sense, in which the choices available within a GRAMMAR are related to communication roles found within the speech situation, as when a particular type of question is perceived in social terms to be a threat.

The term overlaps to some degree with ETHNOLINGUISTICS and ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS, reflecting the overlapping interests of the correlative disciplines involved – sociology, ethnology and anthropology. The study of DIALECTS is sometimes seen as a branch of sociolinguistics, and sometimes differentiated from it, under the heading of DIALECTOLOGY, especially when regional dialects are the focus of study. When the emphasis is on the language of face-to-face interaction, the approach is known as interactional sociolinguistics. Sociological linguistics is sometimes differentiated from sociolinguistics, particularly in Europe, where the term reflects a concern to see language as an integral part of sociological theory. Also sometimes distinguished is sociohistorical linguistics, the study of the way particular linguistic functions and types of variation develop over time within specific languages, speech communities, social groups and individuals.

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الآخبار الصحية

دراسة تكشف علاقة خطيرة بين عمر الأم وصحة مولودها

دراسة تحذر.. اضطراب نوم بسيط قد يسبب الموت المبكر ؟

الاستحمام بالماء الساخن.. راحة مؤقتة وأضرار دائمة للبشرة

ماذا يحدث للجسم عند تخطي وجبة الإفطار؟

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الآخبار التكنلوجية

كيف تساعد الصيانة الوقائية في الحفاظ على كفاءة التكييف في سيارتك ؟

في ظاهرة غريبة حيرت العلماء.. كوكبنا قد يسجل أقصر يوم في التاريخ هذا الصيف!

السد الصيني العملاق يعيق دوران الأرض ويغيّر شكلها ؟

السعودية تطلق 10 تجارب علمية إلى محطة الفضاء الدولية

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مواضيع ذات صلة

Mirror in nominal morphology

Appendix 2: Hapax legomena from the Cobuild corpus

Appendix 1: 20th century neologisms from the OED

Morphological Productivity Structural Constraints in English Derivation Conclusion

Verbal derivation and the separation hypothesis

The separation hypothesis

Theoretical implications: Against the separation of form and meaning in morphology

Rival morphological processes 4: Where have all the rivals gone? Summary

Conversion vs. -ize, -ify and -ate

Rival morphological processes -ize vs. -ate

Rival morphological processes -ize vs. -ify

Rival morphological processes 4: Where have all the rivals gone?