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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.
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WHAT IS SOCIOLINGUISTICS? |
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Sociolinguistics is a term including the aspects of linguistics applied
toward the connections between language and society, and the way we use it
in different social situations. It ranges from the study of the wide
variety of dialects across a given region down to the analysis between the
way men and women speak to one another. Sociolinguistics often shows us
the humorous realities of human speech and how a dialect of a given
language can often describe the age, sex, and social class of the speaker;
it codes the social function of a language.
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SOCIAL FACTORS PIDGINS AND CREOLES POLITENESS STRATEGIES POLITENESS AND GENDER WHO TALKS MORE, MEN OR WOMEN? DO MEN AND WOMEN SPEAK DIFFERENTLY? |
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This page was last updated on Tuesday, February 25, 1997
