Serve diffrent functions

Affected by the social context

Give non-linguistic information

Linguistic: The scientific study of the language. Social: the community of people living area.

Sociolinguistics: the study of the relation between language and socity

-We speak differently in different social contexts. -It signals aspects of people’s social identity

-It is an interdisciplinary field. -Studies patterns of language variations based on social factors.

aims at developing a theory of how language is used in a community.

We identify the linguistic variety involved (language). We identify different social or non-linguistic factors (society).

Social Factors: 1-Participants 2-Setting 3- Topic 4- Function

Social Dimensions: 1-social distance scale 2- Statue scale 3-Formality scale 4-The referntial and affective function scale

Varity: It refers to language in social context Linguistic repertoire: the range of varieties from which people select according to the context in which they are communicating

(Dialects) in monolingual communities (languages) multilingual communities

Vocabulary, sounds, grammar

different dialects