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	LSA: About Linguistics
		Sociolinguistics has become an increasingly important and popular field of study, as certain cultures around the world expand their communication base and intergroup and interpersonal relations take on escalating significance.
		For example, sociolinguists might investigate language attitudes among large populations on a national level, such as those exhibited in the US with respect to the English-only amendment--the legislative proposal to make English the 'official' language of the US.
		Sociolinguists might investigate questions such as how mixed-gender conversations differ from single-gender conversations, how differential power relations manifest themselves in language forms, how caregivers let children know the ways in which language should be used, or how language change occurs and spreads to communities.
	www.lsadc.org /info/ling-fields-socio.cfm (865 words)

	Sociolinguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sociolinguistics is the study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used.
		William Labov is often regarded as the founder of the study of sociolinguistics.
		Sociolinguistics differs from sociology of language in that the focus of sociolinguistics is the effect of the society on the language, while the latter's focus is on the language's effect on the society.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sociolinguistics.html (597 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for sociolinguistics
		SOCIOLINGUISTICS The branch of knowledge which studies the social aspects of LANGUAGE, including how the use and norms of language vary from one society to another (in relation, for example, to ACCENT, DIALECT, and GRAMMAR), and the way in which attitudes influence perceptions of the...
		Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns, including bilingualism, pidgin and creole languages, and other ways that language use is influenced by contact among people of different language communities (e.g.,...
		Sociolinguistics; an international handbook of the science of language and society, 2d.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=sociolinguistics (850 words)

	MRes/GCert Sociolinguistics
		This course is designed for people who wish to pursue graduate studies with a measure of independence or with specific interest in an area of research investigation.
		The Master of Research in Sociolinguistics is designed for people who wish to pursue graduate studies with a measure of independence or with specific interest in an area of research investigation.
		This programme is different from the traditional taught Masters as it is assumed that prospective students already have a comfortable grounding in general linguistics and sociolinguistics.
	www.roehampton.ac.uk /pg/sociolinguistics/index.html (345 words)

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		Sociolinguistics has become an increasingly important and popular field of study, as certain cultures around the world expand their communication base and intergroup and interpersonal relations take on escalating significance.
		For example, sociolinguists might investigate language attitudes among large populations on a national level, such as those exhibited in the US with respect to the English-only amendment--the legislative proposal to make English the "official" language of the US.
		Sociolinguists might investigate questions such as how mixed-gender conversations differ from single-gender conversations, how differential power relations manifest themselves in language forms, how caregivers let children know the ways in which language should be used, or how language change occurs and spreads to communities.
	www.enterwang.com /shownews.asp?NewsID=8003 (849 words)

	Category:Sociolinguistics - ArticleWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sociolinguistics is study of the relationship between language use and social, economic, and cultural factors.
		It often involves the examination of lects, and the differing use of the same language by members of different social classes, gender, education level, and ethnic or religious groups.
		Sociolinguistics focuses on the influence of society on language, while the sociology of lanaguage is concerned with the effect of language on society.
	www.articleworld.org /index.php?title=Category:Sociolinguistics (84 words)

	sociolinguistics. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sociolinguistics encompasses a broad range of concerns, including bilingualism, pidgin and creole languages, and other ways that language use is influenced by contact among people of different language communities (e.g., speakers of German, French, Italian, and Romansh in Switzerland).
		Sociolinguists also examine different dialects, accents, and levels of diction in light of social distinctions among people.
		Speakers of any dialect or any language may modulate their vocabulary and level of diction according to social context, speaking differently in church, for example, than on the playground; social activities that tend to shape the language of those engaging in it are sometimes called registers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/so/sociolin.html (355 words)

	NOVES SL. AUTUMN 2003. HISTORICAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS (1)
		But it was not until around the middle of the 20th century that sociolinguistics accepted this relationship as axiomatic to its approach and established the analysis of these two elements as intrinsically involved in a systematic way.
		Undoubtedly, sociolinguistics has emerged with the support of other disciplines, the ethnography of communication, which analyses language as an element inseparable from its cultural context, and of course sociology.
		As we stated earlier, the analytical paradigm used by variation sociolinguistics in synchronic studies of oral language is entirely applicable to historical sociolinguistic studies.
	www6.gencat.net /llengcat/noves/hm03tardor/a_mas1_2.htm (2028 words)

	Sociolinguistics, Sociolinguistics Books, Sociolinguistics Texts, Sociolinguistics Resources
		It covers all the relevant areas of sociolinguistics such as regional and social variations in dialects, language and gender, World Englishes, and intercultural communication.
		An excellent overview of sociolinguistics, which explains basic sociolinguistic concepts through a wide range of examples, and which draws on 'classic' approaches to the subject as well as the most recent research.
		This book brings together recent research from linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication, anthropology and sociology to provide an up-to-date analysis of different varieties of professional discourse and their historical development.
	www.englishjobmaze.com /bookstore/b-fsbt-socioling.htm (798 words)

	Do You Speak American . What Speech Do We Like Best? . Sociolinguistics . Sociolinguistics \| PBS
		Sociolinguistics is the study of how language serves and is shaped by the social nature of human beings.
		This is historical sociolinguistics: the study of relationship between changes in society and changes in language over a period of time.
		Sociolinguists study many other issues, among them the values that hearers place on variations in language, the regulation of linguistic behavior, language standardization, and educational and governmental policies concerning language.
	www.pbs.org /speak/speech/sociolinguistics/sociolinguistics (1955 words)

	Sociolinguistics
		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.
		It ranges from the study of the wide variety of dialects across a given region down to the analysis between the way men and women speak to one another.
		Sociolinguistics often shows us the humorous realities of human speech and how a dialect of a given language can often describe the age, sex, and social class of the speaker; it codes the social function of a language.
	logos.uoregon.edu /explore/socioling (141 words)

	SIL Bibliography: Sociolinguistics
		Karan, Mark E. The dynamics of language spread: a study of the motivations and the social determinants of the spread of Sango in the Republic of Central Africa.
		Language death in Mesmes: a sociolinguistic and historical-comparative examination of a disappearing language.
		Scebold, Robert A. Central Tagbanwa: a Philippine language on the brink of extinction: sociolinguistics, grammar, and lexicon.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_subject.asp?code=SOL (4918 words)

	Some Definitions and Divisions of Sociolinguistics
		The former is concerned with formal models and methods for analysing the structure of speech communities and speech varieties, and providing a general acount of communicative competence.
		Applied sociolinguistics deals with the social and political implications of fundamental inequalities in language use in various areas of public life, e.g.
		[SR refers this division to Fasold's Sociolinguistics of Society vs. Sociolinguistics of Language]… This [is] an artificial and arbitrary division of labor, which leads to a fruitless reductionism...
	courses.essex.ac.uk /LG/LG554/DefinitionsSlx.html (852 words)

	Sociolinguistics Bookshelf
		Sociolinguistics is a many-faceted discipline that studies the relationships between language and society.
		The LinguaLinks Sociolinguistics bookshelf is designed to help local, national, or others from outside a speech community understand more about the social, linguistic, economic, and political frameworks influencing the speech community.
		By using the integrated program planning section you will be able to work through a process of identifying ways in which resources from outside the community could possibly be made available to the language community to facilitate the goals the community establishes for itself.
	www.ethnologue.com /LL_docs/sociolx_bkshlf.asp (488 words)

	ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
		For synchronic microsociolinguistic research it is usual to concentrate on the impact of a sociolinguistically dominant language A on an immigrant/minority language B. In the Soviet setting, the dominant language was usually Russian (despite Russians being a minority).
		This article examines the intersection of psychometrics and sociolinguists in the testing of English language learners (ELLs); it discusses language, dialect, and register as sources of measurement error.
		This article describes the application of Bakhtin's (1981, 1986a,b) theorisation of language as dialogue to the study of young students' struggle with discourses of ethnicity within the context of a Studies of Asia curriculum project (Hamston 2003).
	eric.ed.gov /ERICWebPortal/Home.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=ERICSearchResult&newSearch=true&ERICExtSearch_Descriptor="Sociolinguistics" (1908 words)

	Sociolinguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sociolinguistics focuses on the functions of language in society.
		It is "interested in explaining why we speak differently in different social contexts, and...in identifying the social functions of language and the ways it is used to convey social meaning," state Janet Holmes, a noted sociolinguists.
		Upon completion of the course, a student is expected to have a basic knowledge of the major concerns within the field, and some of the methods (both qualitative and quantitative) which have been developed to create knowledge within this discipline.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~johnsond/sociolingSyllabus.html (429 words)

	Stanford Sociolinguistics Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Our sociolinguistics program is variation-based, combining a strong emphasis on the social side of variation with a department-wide interest in the linguistic constraints on variation.
		As a result, sociolinguistics is not the poor cousin that it is in many linguistics departments.
		At Stanford, sociolinguistics is integral to the Department's intellectual agenda.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/linguistics/socio (108 words)

	Sociolinguistics - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sociolinguistics - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		It also studies how lects differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, economic status, gender, level of education, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social class or socio-economic classes.
		Studies in the field of sociolinguistics typically take a sample population and interview them, assessing the realisation of certain sociolinguistic variables.
	psychology.wikia.com /wiki/Sociolinguistics (1622 words)

	Sociolinguistics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is also a valuable elective for students in English education and sociology, students interested in the English language and its use in society, and students of foreign languages interested in language teaching and multilingualism.
		In the broadest terms, sociolinguistics is the study of the ways in which language manifests its relatedness to society and society manifests its relatedness to language.
		ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION: Sociolinguistics is a field of linguistics: the objective study of language, the study of language divorced as much as possible from preconceptions and prejudices.
	www.valdosta.edu /~jlcampbe/LING4160II.htm (1131 words)

	OSU Sociolinguistics Program
		The strengths of the sociolinguistics program at The Ohio State include a strong teaching and research program in variationist sociolinguistics, sociophonetics, (morpho-) syntactic variation and change, contact linguistics and creole linguistics.
		The programs in Sociolinguistics and Historical Linguistics also benefit from cooperative teaching and research by faculty such as Brian Joseph who has a joint appointment in Linguistics and Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures.
		The department of English boasts three sociolinguists: Terry Odlin who teaches courses in Language Contact and second language acquisition; Galey Modan, who teaches courses in sociolinguistics field methods and critical discourse analysis; and David Herman, who teaches courses in narrative analysis.
	www.ling.ohio-state.edu /research/sociolinguistics/program.htm (471 words)

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