【Author】 ZHOU Qingsheng;

【keywords】 sociolinguistics; China; language variation; language situation; language planning;

【Abstract】 Chinese sociolinguistics based on the study of the native language life in China was born in 1983.As far as the discipline is concerned,there have been regular sociolinguistics conferences since the 1980s.Most of important achievements have been seen in the language situation,language variation and variety,language and culture,language contact,bilingualism and bidialectism,code-switching,immigrants’language,endangered languages,speech communication,and language planning.Many sociolinguistic topics will beco...