拉波夫和社会语言学

Labov and sociolinguistics

自从索绪尔开创的以研究语言系统本体结构规律为核心的现代结构主义语言学兴起的近一个世纪,语言科学得到了快速发展,取得了前所未有的令世人瞩目的巨大成就.

The author concisely relates the history of sociolinguistics and Labov's contributions to it. He emphatically points out that it is the tradition of Chinese linguistics to hold that language and society are closely related to each other, and so sociolinguistics took its root deeply immediately after it was introduced in the 80's of the last century. Since then, macrosociolinguistics has been developing rapidly, whereas in microsociolinguistics there is much room for development.