ABSTRACT
Sociolinguistics investigates the relationship between language and society. As its name suggests, it was born as a multidisciplinary field (Coupland, 2016) that might involve disciplines such as linguistics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, education, cultural studies, media studies, etc. It becomes a cover term for segments of different fields, such as variationist sociolinguistics, the social psychology of language, linguistic anthropology, the ethnography of communication, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, sociocultural linguistics, etc. In addition to providing insights to language maintenance and policy making, sociolinguistics also provides researchers with theories and frameworks to deal with language and discourse occurring in diverse social contexts.
