Sociolinguists study the relationship between language and society, explaining why we speak differently in different social context and concerned with identifying the social functions of language and the way it is used to convey social meaning. It also study the language choice in multilingual communities, language maintenance and shift, linguistic varieties and multilingual nations, national languages and language planning and so on.
Sociolinguistics is a term including the aspects of linguistics applied toward the connections between language and society, and the way we use it in different social situations.
We have chosen sociolinguistics because we find it exciting and appealing to our life. It basically talks about the influence of language on our culture. Students of English Language and Literature took a course on Sociolinguistics and we all enjoyed learning the course throughout the semester that we find it very useful as well. Sociolinguistics helps us to understand how a language could be used in different social context and the functions.
We have chosen sociolinguistics because we find it exciting and appealing to our life. It basically talks about the influence of language on our culture. Students of English Language and Literature took a course on Sociolinguistics and we all enjoyed learning the course throughout the semester that we find it very useful as well. Sociolinguistics helps us to understand how a language could be used in different social context and the functions.
Good introduction to the course chosen and well justified.
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