Professional sociolect as a socially determined subsystem of the literary language

Abstract

The originality of the article is manifested in the fact that it takes a new approach to identifying the characteristics of a professional sociolect determined by various social factors, considers their types and corresponding language options. It examines a specialized language subsystem of a socially partial group of speakers in their professional field of activity, which is used in accordance with situational variables: social role, social relations. The content of the work consists of information concerning the allocation of a linguistic variant-a professional sociolect, which has the following social characteristics: determinism by stratification, situational
and communicative variables (destination, addressee, purpose of a speech act, purpose of communication, etc.; the use by professionals of speech and language options in the act of communication, in the speech activity of communicants in the course of specialized activities in the form of a language code that reflects the specifics of the speakers’ activities and fixes their professional experience; the allocation of partial groups and social factors; characteristics of the professional vocabulary of the studied sociolect. This article provides an understanding of language differentiation; the social factors that determine sociolects at the modern level
of language development are characterized; the use of linguistic professional variants with social determinants is considered; the strata of society are described and partial groups are studied; it is found that a professional sociolect is a variant of the language determined by social mediated factors: stratification, situational and communicative. In general, professional sociolect is presented as a variant of the language, conditioned by stratification, situational and communicative social factors.