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What impact do the following have on language?
What impact do the following have on language?


* Institutions
=== Institutions ===
* Economic processes
* Sociocultural resources


=== Economic processes ===


Related subfields of linguistics:
=== Sociocultural resources ===


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=== Related subfields of linguistics ===

Revision as of 16:28, 24 November 2022

Definition: Language exists in a sociocultural ecology: this approach investigates how language relates to the social and cultural forces that shape the conditions of speakers and speech communities (Steffensen and Fill 2014:7)

Steffensen and Fill also elaborate, that “when one focuses on the sociocultural ecology of language, one sees human (linguistic) interaction that both constitutes and is constituted by larger social and societal structures that include institutions, economic processes and sociocultural resources” (2014:12).

What impact do the following have on language?

Institutions

Economic processes

Sociocultural resources

Related subfields of linguistics