SOCIOLINGUISTICS AND OTHER LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINES

It cannot be said that the boundaries of sociolinguistics have finally been determined. Sociolinguistics deals with the functioning of language that people use for communication. The rules of interaction existing in different societies are subject to restrictions due to the specifi cs of this society. It seems that sociolinguistics can be distinguished, first of all, not by topic or methods, but by interpretation: either the studied phenomenon can be explained by social reasons, or sociological conclusions can drawn from it.