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DID YOU KNOW SOCIOLINGUISTICS?

  From its term, sociolinguistics is derived from two different disciplines: sociology  and  linguistics. SOCIOLOGY : a study about social structure, social organizations, relationship between and within groups of people, and social behaviour.  In a broader sense, sociology studies about groups of people in society (family, clan, tribes, and nations), how they behave and affect each other. Sociologists assume sociology as a single discipline which is not related at all with any other disciplines and consider that society could be constituted without language.  All scientists (sociologists, psychologists, physicists, biologists, linguists, economists, historians, literary scholars) are all interested in arrangements. Basically, all disciplines try to find patterns of arrangements LINGUISTICS (often called general linguistics, or structural linguistics) is a study about phones (phonology), words (morphology) and sentences (syntax). Only very recently, it studies d...