The General Overview of Sociolinguistics (What does sociolinguistics mean?) (Part 1) Since a language is a social phenomenon, it is natural to assume that the structure of a society has some impacts on the language use. The study of the relationship between language and society is the sub-field of sociolinguistics. In other words, sociolinguistics focuses on how language is used by individual speaker in a social context. Additionally, sociolinguistics deals with the linguistic variation of the individual speaker. And then, linguistic variation refers to the use of two or more ways of saying the same thing, and it identifies our special prestige,economic background, educational level and our occupation .Generally, sociolinguistics is particularly concerned with the social characteristics(age, educational level, income, place of birth,place of residence, occupation...etc)of people. Furthermore, sociolinguistics appears as a new field ( 1960s) with the emergence of dialectology. This latter deals with the social or urban dialectology . The scope of sociolinguistics encompasses who says, what to, whom, when, where, how and why. When sociolinguists started to be involved in the 1950 and 1960 s, they preferred the term "language planning" as the term for any effort to modify language form or use. Language planning has five major steps; the selection of a language, codification, elaboration, implementation and acceptence. In the sociolinguistic field, language can be studied from two different points o view (synchronic and diachronic analyses.) Diachronic method is the study of variation throughout the time; it refers to the historical background of a language. While synchronic analysis it the study of language variation of one point at time. Dear readers, This a small paragraph is written to be shared with your comment, correction or discussion. And, the essential reason is to improve the skill of writing. I hope you like it. Sincerely, SMILE EVERY DAY