A textbook "Sociolinguistics" was published for Orzibonu Yusupova, Associate Professor of the Department of Uzbek Linguistics, Samarkand State University.

      This textbook gives the main topics for mastering the discipline "sociolinguistics", provides information about the subject of study, the goals and objectives of the discipline "sociolinguistics", about the formation of this area of sociolinguistic views in the works of Eastern and Western thinkers, about the directions of networkolinguistics, research methods, the functional classification of language as a socio-communicative system, about changes in the influence on the development of levels, language, the concept of contact, sociolinguistic phenomena due to language contact om, bilingualism and its types, designed to expand students' understanding of the phenomenon of interference, the components of the world of communication, the culture of the speaker and listener in the process of communication, ralinguistic and extralinguistic means, providing additional information for the development and deepening of their initial knowledge.

      The manual can be used by students of philological education, undergraduates, researchers.

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