社会语言学从社会环境的角度来考察语言,因此它的注意点不在于句子或篇章,而在于言语活动。也就是说,社会语言学把语言看作行为,它试图从数量、频率、谈话的类型(代表不同的话题,参加者和场合)等方面的充分理解语言在社会生活中的作用而提供依据。在一定意义上,说社会语言学不是什么,也许会把问题说得更清楚些。社会浯言学不是社会学、人类学和语言学的简单混合物,也不只是从多角 Sociolinguistics examines the language from the point of view of the social environment, so its focus is not on sentences or passages but on verbal activity. In other words, sociolinguistics regards language as a behavior and tries to provide a basis for fully understanding the role of language in social life in terms of quantity, frequency, type of conversation (representing different topics, participants and occasions). In a certain sense, to say that sociolinguistics is not something may make the problem clearer. Social 浯 ology is not a simple mixture of sociology, anthropology and linguistics, nor is it just from polygons