语言的社会变体及其分类

Social varieties of language and their classification

社会语言学中的语言变体问题,首先应考察语言和社会的关系,其中包括语言和社会的依存关系、语言的变异性和区分语言社会变体的标准及其分类。语言的社会变体包括地域变体和社会方言变体。社会方言变体主要有阶层变体、领域语言变体和语言的性别变体,其中性别变体表现在用语上的差别、性别差异中的歧视和女性语体诸方面。语言的社会变体还有口语与书面语、语体、文体等语言功能变体。

The thesis looks into the language varieties in sociolinguistics. The first section is about the relations between language and society. It discusses the dependent relations between language and society, the variability of language, the standard to differentiate social varieties and their classification. In the second section, a detailed description is given to social varieties of language. The features of regional varieties and social varieties are explained with examples. This section is the most important part in this thesis, especially gender varieties are explained specifically. The third section is about the examples and explanation of functional varieties.