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Now, lets talk about interesting information about
Sociolinguistics subject, shall we?
Below is the overview of what Sociolinguistics is all about.
Hope you find this, informative and useful.
Sociolinguistics: An academic field
of study in Linguistics which has only developed within the last fifty years,
in the latter part of the last century.
Scope: Social aspects of language, in the
intersection of language and society.
First coined: The word sociolinguistics was
apparently coined in 1939 in the title of an article by Thomas C. Hodson,
“Sociolinguistics in India” in Man in India.
First used: In linguistics by Eugene Nida
in the second edition of his Morphology (1949: 152), but the
term always been attributed to Haver Currie (1952), who himself claimed to have
invented it.
William Labov has called Sociolinguistics secular
linguistics, "in reaction to the contention among many linguists
working in a broadly Chomskyan framework that language can be dissociated from
its social functions" (Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy
of Language, 2005).
In the late 1960s, Sociolinguistics became
popularized as a field of study and there were two labels – sociolinguistics
and sociology of language – for the same phenomenon. The terms; the
study of the intersection and interaction of language and society were also
used interchangeably.
Eventually, wider
description of language is made in relation to social factors, including
differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences,
and bilingualism.
Sociolinguists
attempt to isolate the linguistic features used in particular situations that
mark the various social relationships among the participants and the
significant elements of the situation. Factors influencing the choice of
sounds, grammatical elements, and vocabulary may include age, gender,
education, ethnic identity, occupation, and peer-group identification.
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