I．Brainstorming

What is the relationship between society and language? Can society affect language?

II. What is sociolinguistics?

 The sociolinguistic study of language 

 Language in relation to society 

 Diversity of language, variation between societies or within a society

Sociolinguistics is that branch of linguistics which studies just those properties of language and languages which require reference to social, including contextual, factors in their explanation.