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    In the 1960s, sociolinguistics emerged as a field of study focusing on the relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics examines how social factors influence language use in different contexts, while sociology more broadly studies the effects of social structures and interactions on society. Some key aspects of sociolinguistics discussed in the text include language variation based on factors like age, sex, social class, and the relationship between speakers. The document also discusses related concepts like diglossia, where a community uses more than one language variety for different purposes, and bilingualism, the ability to use two languages.

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    In the 1960s, sociolinguistics emerged as a field of study focusing on the relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics examines how social factors influence language use in different contexts, while sociology more broadly studies the effects of social structures and interactions on society. Some key aspects of sociolinguistics discussed in the text include language variation based on factors like age, sex, social class, and the relationship between speakers. The document also discusses related concepts like diglossia, where a community uses more than one language variety for different purposes, and bilingualism, the ability to use two languages.

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    In the 1960s, sociolinguistics emerged as a field of study focusing on the relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics examines how social factors influence language use in different contexts, while sociology more broadly studies the effects of social structures and interactions on society. Some key aspects of sociolinguistics discussed in the text include language variation based on factors like age, sex, social class, and the relationship between speakers. The document also discusses related concepts like diglossia, where a community uses more than one language variety for different purposes, and bilingualism, the ability to use two languages.

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    Sociolinguistics Origins and Definitions

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    In the 1960s, sociolinguistics emerged as a field of study focusing on the relationship between language and society. Sociolinguistics examines how social factors influence language use in different contexts, while sociology more broadly studies the effects of social structures and interactions on society. Some key aspects of sociolinguistics discussed in the text include language variation based on factors like age, sex, social class, and the relationship between speakers. The document also discusses related concepts like diglossia, where a community uses more than one language variety for different purposes, and bilingualism, the ability to use two languages.

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    In 1960¶s the word sociolinguistics was popularized under the general terms,
    sociolinguistics and sociology of language (2(Mckay, 2005). Both concepts were
    initially used indistinctly but eventually differences in meaning were assigned.
    While sociolinguistics involves the relation between languages and society;
    sociology involves explanations and predictions about the language in society in
    a group of people. First, sociolinguistics became a very popular field of study
    and many studies concern fields of language, gender studies, pidgin and creole
    studies, language planning, policy studies, and linguistics minorities studies
    (Brown, 2000). Second, sociology is a field of human science which concerns
    the study of social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and
    deviance. In my opinion, both concepts are almost the same, but sociology pay
    specific attention on the effect of language on society ; however, sociolinguistics
    focuses on the effect of language on society. The differences between them are
    not really the concepts; they are about what somebody wants to study, the
    language or the society in order to focus in sociolinguistics or sociology
    respectively.

    According to McKey (2005), sociolinguistics is a field of linguistics that studies


    the relation between language and social factors and how they are used in
    different situations.

    When two speakers establish a conversation, their conversation is influenced by


    different social factors, for example, age, sex, social class, relationship between
    one and other. For example, if we consider how a person can request ³close the
    door to another person"

    ã Politely, "Could you please close the door?"


    ã Less politely, "Why you do not close the door"
    ã Rough, "Close the door!"

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    There are different factors that permit to convey the message in the appropriate
    way; this permit to ensure that the message is received in the correct form. For
    example:

    ã How do they know each other?


    ã Te conversation is formal or informal.
    ã The status relationship
    ã Social roles.
    ã Topic.

    It depends on how somebody knows another person. It is used a specific variety


    of language or code of language, and it occurs in a same neighborhood, but if it
    occurs in a wide geographical area is called diglossia , where people have
    different languages, dialect and accents.

    For me, a variety of languages mean that individual person has his own
    particular form of express or transmits something, and it depends about the
    characteristics of the person who is talking, for example this may include
    dialects, accents, registers or styles. While diglossia is the condition that a
    community has for using more than one language and it is used in a particular
    setting. One form is the literary or prestige dialect, and the other is a common
    dialect spoken by most of the population. In the same way if a person speaks
    more than one language, it is called bilingualism, and it is the condition that has
    somebody to talk in tow language, if he o r she speaks in the language that he
    feels more comfortable, it is his dominant language. A person who speaks two
    languages, and he recognizes the same meaning for a specific word, it is
    considered a compound bilingualism. In the other hand, a person who speaks
    both languages fluently, it is called balanced bilingual.

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