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WHAT IS SOCIOLINGUISTICS?
- SOCIOLINGUISTICS is a study of the relationship between language and the society.
- It concerned in identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning.
- Through sociolinguistics, we can now examine way people signal aspects of their social identity through their language.
- It often shows us the realities of human speech and how a dialect of a given language can often describe the age, sex and social class of the speaker.
- In simple words, people always speak differently in different social settings.
- This introduction to some exciting aspects in the field of social linguistics is designed to encourage you to read further. There are many fascinating and odd phenomena that occur in the social aspects of language.
Further Readings:
Holmes, J. (2008) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. England: Pearson Education Limited.
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