Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language use
and the structure of society. It takes into account such factors as the social
backgrounds of both the speaker and the addressee (i.e. their age, sex, social
class, ethnic background, degree of integration into their neighbourhood, etc.),relationship between speaker and addressee (good friends, employer–employee,
teacher–pupil, grandmother–grandchild, etc.) and the context and manner of the