【正确答案】Sociolinguistics, as an interdisciplinary study of language use, attempts to show the relationships between language and society and the social structures in which the users of language live. More specifically, in this discipline, we have two important things to think about: structural things and their uses in a sociocultural context. Sociolinguistics deals with two issues. First, it looks at structural things by paying attention to language use in a social context. Second, it studies sociological things of society by examining linguistic phenomena of a speaking community.

【答案解析】[解析] 此题考查的是考生对社会语言学定义的理解。社会语言学是指在揭示语言与社会的关系的交叉性、应用型的语言研究。具体而言，社会语言学有两个方面的重要内容：一是语言结构的分析研究，二是社会语境中具体用法的考查。社会语言学首先试图通过社会语境中语言使用情况的调查了解语言结构的问题，其次又通过语言现象的分析，了解社会构成的问题。