Sociolinguistics studies of English language: analytical overview of the problem

Abstract

The article analyzes the peculiarities the modern investigations of sociolinguistics studies of English language. The author distinguishes the main concept of this issue “sociolinguistics” and understand it as the study the language’s phenomenon within the development and transformation of the society; it collates with social stratification and structure of the society; it determinates the main tendencies of language development in the connection with groups, personal, international communication. The author analyzes modern issues devoted to the sociolinguistics studies of English language. The analytical overview and theoretical investigation also allowed to distinguish the following sociolinguistics studying of English: the fist is the English language learning as the second one; the second direction is concentrated on the gender peculiarities of English language perception and learning; sociolinguistics finding in English language is the globalization; sociolinguistics studding of English language are connected with digitalization; sociolinguistics studying of English in the context of intercultural interrelations.