Used for:

• LANGUAGE & languages -- Social aspects
• LANGUAGE & languages -- Sociological aspects
• LANGUAGE & society
• SOCIETY & language
• SOCIOLOGY of language

Narrower term:

•  ACCENTS & accentuation -- Social aspects
• ACCEPTABILITY (Linguistics)
• AGEISM in language
• BILINGUALISM -- Social aspects
• CULTURAL scripts
• DIALECT research
• DIGLOSSIA (Linguistics)
• ENGLISH language -- Social aspects
• GERMAN language -- Social aspects
• INTERVIEWING in sociolinguistics
• LANGUAGE attrition
• LANGUAGE in families
• LANGUAGE maintenance
• LANGUAGE obsolescence
• LANGUAGE planning
• LANGUAGE purism
• LANGUAGE revival
• LANGUAGE spread
• LINGUISTIC demography
• LINGUISTIC identity
• LINGUISTIC landscapes
• LINGUISTIC minorities
• LITERATURE & society
• RACISM in language
• RHETORIC & society
• SAPIR-Whorf hypothesis
• SWEARING (Profanity) -- Social aspects
• URBAN dialects
• VOICE -- Social aspects
• XENOPHOBIA in language

Broader term:

•   LANGUAGE & culture
• LINGUISTICS
• SOCIOLOGY

Related Term:

• ​ ATTITUDES toward language
• DIALECTS
• ETHNOLOGICAL names
• LANGUAGE & globalization
• LANGUAGE policy
• MONOLINGUALISM
• MUTUAL intelligibility of modern languages
• SOCIO-psycholinguistic theory
• SPEECH & social status

Sociolinguistics

Here are entered general works about the social aspects of language. General works on mutual relationships between language and culture are entered under "Language & culture." Works on mutual relationships between ethnicity and language are entered under "Anthropological linguistics." [EPC]