All About - Sociolinguistics

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What is Sociolinguistics? A documentary report all about Sociolinguistics for homework/assignment. Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society. Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the sociology of language focuses on language's effect on the society. Sociolinguistics overlaps to a considerable degree with pragmatics. It is historically closely related to linguistic anthropology and the distinction between the two fields has even been questioned recently. Intro/Outro music: Discovery Hit/Chucky the Construction Worker - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under CC-BY-3.0 Text derived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolinguistics Text to Speech powered by voice-rss.com Images are Public Domain or CC-BY-3.0: 20131028052637!Research_options_for_studying_language_change_(Tillery,_Bailey_2003).png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_sociolinguistics Journal_of_Sociolinguistics_cover.gif from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Sociolinguistics 254px-Visualization_of_two_sampling_zones_of_a_social_network,_snowball_sampling_technique.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Network_(sociolinguistics) 400px-Stances.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_(sociolinguistics) Social-network.png from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Network_(sociolinguistics) 120px-Encoding_communication.jpg from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociolinguistics