Sociolinguistics
The term sociolinguistics was coined in 1939 after the title of an article by Thomas 
C. Hodson, “Sociolinguistics in India” (journal Man in India)
The relationship between language and society in terms of understanding the way we speak changes in 
different social contexts and revealing the social relationships in a given community
Linguistics : Eugene Nida (Morphology) 
NOAM CHOMSKY VS. DELL HYMES
Generativism Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Competence Ethnography of communication (1921)
Corrolating results from linguistics, 
psychology, sociology, ethnology
Investigating the communicative 
habits of speech community
It investigates the use of language in contexts of situation
Example : Three speakers in one country (Edinburg, London, Liverpool) 
are native speakers of English Language but they have social/dialectal 
variations
Linguistic view of linguistic structure : Determine basic 
grammatical structures of language basing on speakers’ 
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