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Sociolinguistics. Stella Mikhailova TAL-12. Louis Gauchat Thomas Callan Hodson William Labov Basil Bernstein L.P. Yakubinsky V.V. Vinogradov B.A. Larin. Famous sociolinguists:. Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society.
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Sociolinguistics StellaMikhailova TAL-12
Louis Gauchat Thomas CallanHodson William Labov Basil Bernstein L.P. Yakubinsky V.V. Vinogradov B.A. Larin Famous sociolinguists:
Sociolinguisticsis the study of the relationship between language and society. • Questions sociolinguistics answers: • Why don’t we speak the same to our boss at work as our friends, or speak to strangers as our family? • Do women and men speak the same with each other? • Why do people the same age or from the same social class or same ethnicity use similar language?
Micro and macro approaches of sociolinguistics: • InteractionalSociolinguistics • VariationistSociolinguistics • Historicalsociolinguistics • Dialectology • DiscourseAnalysis • ConversationAnalysis • Languageplanningandpolicy
General facts about the study of sociolinguistics: • Two approaches to the study of sociolinguistics ‘micro’ and ‘macro’; • Focus on ’linguistic performance’; • Relation to the actual language that is produced and the way it is used in its wider social context; • Relation to ’linguistic competence’.
