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Language in a Behavioural Framework: An Overview on Sociolinguistics

as dialectology, language’ change, language acquisition, bilingualism. It is only during the last decade that the studies concerning .the speech act in all its social dimensions have been getting more impetus. With some initial inter-disciplinary collaborations among linguists and social scientists, these studies are now getting integrated as a distinct discipline, and consequently some independent sociolinguistic categories are emerging in an attempt at theory building. Hence one can now justifiably delineate the hyphen from ‘socio-linguistics’.