What is the scope of sociolinguistics?

Answer 1

Chomsky (1965) redefined the nature of its object. He recognized 'competence' in language as the fluent native speaker's knowledge of grammar and as a subject of human capacity. The term 'competence' is largely unexamined; a different set of competences comprising of distinctive abilities other than grammar. Also, Chomsky assumes that competence is something underlying behavior. Linguistic theory has to extend the definition of competence. Competence has to be extended to systemic potential, appropriateness, occurence, feasibility.The goals of Sociolinguistics is

1. the social as well as the linguistic

2. socially realistic linguistics

3. socially constituted linguistics

There are several problems that it's not posing a challenge to traditional linguistics and lacking theoretical goals.

Since sociolinguistics means many things to many people,