Abstract: It has been about 40 years since the appearance of sociolinguistics. The requirement of the social history, the improvement of the physical conditions and the inevitability of the development of linguistics itself, are three important reasons for its coming into being. At present, studies in sociolinguistics are widely made, and five branches can be distinguished in it, i.e. Social Dialectics, Sociology of Language, Ethnography of Communication, Social Psychology of Language, Interactional Sociolinguistics. These different orientations have their own focuses and they will eventually become the basic contents of investigation in contemporary sociolinguistics.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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