Metalinguistic activities as a focus of sociolinguistic research: Language Management Theory, its potential, and fields of application

Abstract

The paper aims at identifying common features in various fields of sociolinguistic research which would help rationalize methodological procedures and increase their efficiency. To this end, the paper discusses Language Management Theory, which focuses on the metalinguistic activities or behavior toward language of various social actors.

Such metalinguistic activities represent a common denominator interconnecting seemingly heterogeneous fields of sociolinguistic research.

Keywords

• Language Management Theory
• sociolinguistics
• methodology
• integration of research perspectives