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1、ThedefinitionofSociolinguisticsanditsCharacteristic外语系06接本6班尹珊珊24号[Abstract]Sociolinguisticsisatermincludingtheaspectsoflinguisticsappliedtowardtheconnectionsbetweenlanguageandsociety,andthewayweuseitindifferentsocialsituations.Itrangesfromthestudyofthewidevarietyofdialectsacrossagivenreg
2、iondowntotheanalysisbetweenthewaymenandwomenspeaktooneanother.Sociolinguisticsoftenshowsusthehumorousrealitiesofhumanspeechandhowadialectofagivenlanguagecanoftendescribetheage,sex,andsocialclassofthespeaker;itcodesthesocialfunctionofalanguage.[Keywords]sociolinguisticssociolinguisticsvari
3、ationsocialfunction[Content]Sociolinguisticsisthestudyoftheeffectofanyandallaspectsofsociety,includingculturalnorms,expectations,andcontext,onthewaylanguageisused.Italsostudieshowlectsdifferbetweengroupsseparatedbycertainsocialvariables,e.g.,ethnicity,religion,status,gender,levelofeducati
4、on,etc.,andhowcreationandadherencetotheserulesisusedtocategorizeindividualsocio-economicclasses.Astheusageofalanguagevariesfromplacetoplace,andlanguageusagevariesamongsocialclasses.Itissocialiststhatsociolinguisticsstudies.Thestudyoflanguagevariationisconcernedwithsocialconstraintsdetermi
5、nelanguageinitscontextualenvironment.Code-switchingisthetermgiventotheuseofdifferentvarietiesoflanguageindifferentsocialsituations.Sociolinguisticdiffersfromsociologyoflanguageinthatthefocusofsociolinguisticsistheeffectofthesocietyonthelanguage,whilethelatter’sfocusisonthelanguage’seffect
6、onthesociety.Whilethestudyofsociolinguisticsisverybroad,thereareafewfundamentalconceptsonwhichmostsociolinguisticinquiriesdepend.Sociolinguisticsisdifferentfrommanyoftheotherbranchesoflinguisticsinthatitstudiesexternalasopposedtointernallanguage.Internallanguageappliestothestudyoflanguage
7、ontheabstractlevel,orinthehead,putsimply.Externallanguageappliestolanguageinsocialcontexts,oroutsidethehead.Thisdistinctionisimportant,becauseinternallanguageanalyses,suchassyntaxandsemantics,operate3ontheassumptionthatallnativespeakersofalanguagearequitehomogeneous
