Sociolinguistics

“How does language fit into society?”

“How does language work in the mind?”

"How does language relate to one’s though pattern?"

"How does language relate to one’s personality?"

• approach that says that culture and society and a person’s social position influence/determine the content and form of language
  
  
  • dialectology
    
    
• a field of study devoted to revealing such social effects on language
  

Language reflects:

• place
  
  
• time
  
  
• age
  
  
• sex
  
  
• circumstance

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