Sociolinguistics: Study of Language  in the Social Context

Dr. Farida Yousaf

Journal of Research (Languages and Islamic Studies), Vol # 6, Issue # 1
Sociolinguistics: Study of Language in the Social Context

Sociolinguistics: Study of Language in the Social Context

Dr. Farida Yousaf/
December 31, 2004

Keywords

Sociolinguistics Language Bilingualism Culture Society English

Abstract

Sociolinguistics is the field that studies the relation between language and society, between the users of language and the social structures in which the users of language live. The study of language in the social context has become more important in the modern age. One of the most revealing opportunities for studying language socialization is in the case of children growing bilingually. The study of bilingualism provides and excellent laboratory for observing how a child can learn to be member of two or more distinct societies. A major topic in sociolinguistic is the connection between the structures, vocabularies and ways of using particular languages and the social roles of the men and women who speak these languages. We find reflexes of gender differences in language for most societies differentiate between men and women in various marked ways. Power is an important influence on language in most urban societies. Language has become to be seen as the major locus of ideology and so of major significance with respect to power. Language, culture and thought are impinged into each other in many ways. Most of language is contained with in culture and a society’s language is an important aspect of its culture. The relation of language to culture is that of the part to whole. Thus Sociolinguistics explores new areas of interrelationship between language and society and plays a vital role in maintaining the social context of language.

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Yousaf, D. F. (2020). Sociolinguistics: Study of Language in the Social Context. (جرنل آف ریسرچ (اردو, 6(1), 17–26. https://jorurdu.bzu.edu.pk/website/journal/article/5e83ad7fa1e51/page

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