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IMPACT OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS IN SOCIETY AND LANGUAGE

  Introduction : We all know language is a system to communicate and also a phenomenon of social scope. We will define sociolinguistics as: “It is the interpretation of language in broader social context” (Hudson, 1999). The basic purpose of this discipline is to show that how language is influenced by above factors. Ø      Social class Ø      Gender Ø      Race Ø      Creed Ø      Economy Ø      Culture Now let’s proceed towards our main issue. I.e. how Sociolinguistics influences our understanding of society and language. Language and Social classes : In order to endorse this concept, let’s discuss an example. The following example is different discourse patterns of two individuals (Yule, 2014) Ø   Speaker A         “I done it yesterday” Ø   Speaker B          “I did it yesterda...