why the study of sociolinguistics has increased in recent several decades?
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Sociolinguistics is a relatively new field which studies the context of the language, not just the dialect.  Because of the importance of communicating directly and through translation, each language is now being studied in more detail.\nFifty years ago there was not much contact between peoples of different part of the world.  Today, with modern communication techniques, including the Internet, the study of sociolinguistics take on a more important role to make sure what we think is being said, is indeed, what was meant by the speaker or writer.\nFor example if someone in America expects to get telephone support for a person hired in India who learned English as a second language, one needs to know much more about the context of the language(s) being spoken.\nCheck out the sites below:
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Certainly.  Some internet abbreviations have entered daily spoken language.  People are doing much more writing and much less speaking.  A new level of langauge (e-mail speak) seems to be developing.  Even amoung educated, careful speakers, a certain number of appreviations, symbols and careless spellings seems to have become accepted.  While some younger users are taking this to the point of incomprehensibility (if you are not in the know), this will probably level off.  The number of international users will change some English used on the Internet as new norms develop.  The Internet is a new community of speakers/writers, and as it develops, it will change.
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I completely agree!  (wit U) It appears that it is easier for people to type sounds than actually become educated. Tread lightly, though, as we live in an over politically correct society!
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Written language can be more complicated. It can use longer sentences. When someone speaks, there can be things like "uhm" and pauses that make it less fluent. There are words that are common only in one of the types. Spoken language is much older. When people started to record things, pictures preceded signs. Technology also has an influence on communication. The telephone, television and Internet have surely changed the way we speak and write.
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It's just part of the ever-evolving life of language. Language is always growing and changing, and American English is a conglomerate of many different languages. Indeed there are many dialects of American English where the lexicon changes depending on where you are in the country. There's a really good book called The Story of English if you're truly interested in investigating the etymology of the words.
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how, as a society, people interact with each other \n\n9 words
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Deffinatly people and verbal skills.
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Yes, very much in the following years. Cognitive science has much to its credit already. Among other accomplishments, it has given rise to models of human cognitive bias and risk perception, and has been influential in the development of behavioral finance, part of economics. It has also given rise to a new theory of the philosophy of mathematics, and many theories of artificial intelligence, persuasion and coercion. It has made its presence firmly known in philosophy of language and epistemology - a modern revival of rationalism - as well as constituting a substantial wing of modern linguistics.
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You can study "Historical Linguistics".  It is the science that describes how languages change over time, and math is used in determining when certain events occurred.  Just a thought, but I think it would suit you!\n\nPlease vote for the best answer!
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The world is also becoming costlier !\n:-))
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
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There's some basic info here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics
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Language is constantly evolving. Sometimes the accepted spelling changes, sometimes so rapidly that it actually occurs between your typing and the words reaching the screen. \nSometimes, however, it's more a matter of an evil computer who awoke on the wrong side of the bed that day.
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The value of textual statistics is now widely acknowledged in many branches of the social sciences, reflecting the fact that there are few fields of research in which the text is not a major element for analysis.\n\nThe statistical processing may be of responses to open questions, interviews, texts and even individual itineraries. The procedures are numerous and can be adapted to different kinds of material. The aim in the present article is to give a broad overview of the various applications of these methods, ranging from the most traditional to the most recent, and focusing on both the methodology used and the results obtained.
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As a linguist, it is very difficult to trace back whether humanity was once speaking one single language. Babel belongs to the bible, but not in a linguistics course.\n\nIf we go back 8-10,000 years ago, there seems to be a trend in thinking that there were maybe less languages around. At least that would have been the case for Indo-European: there was no English, no German, no French, no Welsh, no Russian, no Hindi, no Albanian, no Greek, no Latin - there was only Proto-Indi-European (*IE) from which linguists can trace the evolution of *IE to English, for instance.\n\nThe reason why there are so many languages is because humanity is mobile: altough some people settle somewhere, there's always one group that moves away. After a while, their speech changes and can adapt to the speech of the people that already live in the new place.\n\nThere is a clear trend at the moment that English is becoming the international language, which means that that is the language that people using one language will use to speak to another group of speakers (lingua franca). However, this does not mean that English will take over all the other languages.
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No one can deny that the 21st century is the century of globalization,the world is becoming more and more globalized but i think globalization and attachment to own indentity goes hand in hand,that is,you can't go on mingling if you think your gonna lose your identity,so the future belongs to ppl who will be able to mingle and at the same time remain their identity,it is not easy,but it is one of the things facing the upcoming generations,and we have to cope up with it and learn how to do this paradox just as we learn any other skill.
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It's because the modern society that has been created focuses on the speed of production. With computers, television, cars, etc, who cares about details. The goal is to get as much out as fast as possible while still creating some sense of coherency. Unless someone is writing a paper for school, most people don't care about their grammar as long as people understand.