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ccc c c In 1960¶s the word sociolinguistics was popularized under the general , sociolinguistics and sociology of language (2(Mckay, 2005). Both concepts were initially used indistinctly but eventually differences in meaning were assigned. While sociolinguistics involves the relation between languages and society; sociology involves explanations and predictions about the language in society in a group of people. First, sociolinguistics became a very popular field of study and many studies concern fields of language, gender studies, pidgin and creole studies, language planning, policy studies, and linguistics minorities studies (Brown, 2000). Second, sociology is a field of human science which concerns the study of social relations, social stratification, social interaction, culture and deviance. In my opinion, both concepts are almost the same, but sociology pay specific attention on the effect of language on society ; however, sociolinguistics focuses on the effect of language on society. The differences between them are not really the concepts; they are about what somebody wants to study, the language or the society in order to focus in sociolinguistics or sociology respectively. According to McKey (2005), sociolinguistics is a field of linguistics that studies the relation between language and social factors and how they are used in different situations. When two speakers establish a conversation, their conversation is influenced by different social factors, for example, age, sex, social class, relationship between one and other. For example, if we consider how a person can request ³close the door to another person"

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It depends on how somebody knows another person. It is used a specific variety of language or code of language, and it occurs in a same neighborhood, but if it occurs in a wide geographical area is called diglossia , where people have different languages, dialect and accents. For me, a variety of languages mean that individual person has his own particular form of express or transmits something, and it depends about the characteristics of the person who is talking, for example

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dialects, accents, s or styles. While diglossia is the condition that a community has for using more than one language and it is used in a particular setting. One form is the literary or prestige dialect, and the other is a common dialect spoken by most of the population. In the same way if a person speaks more than one language, it is called bilingualism, and it is the condition that has somebody to talk in tow language, if he o r she speaks in the language that he feels more comfortable, it is his dominant language. A person who speaks two languages, and he recognizes the same meaning for a specific word, it is considered a compound bilingualism. In the other hand, a person who speaks both languages fluently, it is called balanced bilingual.

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