Practice Quote by William Labov

There is undoubtedly much to learn about the social uses of language, for communication or for other purposes. But at present there is not…

— Noam Chomsky

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

— Carrie Brownstein

Social groups in society don't swim about in some kind of harmonious melting pot. We rub against each other from very different and opposing…

— Michael Rosen

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

One notable feature is that English doesn't have much of a system for expressing relative social status.

— David Crystal

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very…

— Edward Sapir

Language is a social institution.

— RMKATTA

“Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections…

— Peter Trudgill

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from…

— Aleister Crowley

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are…

— Neal Stephenson