The role of social context in enhancing language competence and performance

Abstract

The process of linguistic communication between people differs in terms of language competence and practice, this difference was the main reason for the difference in perception of different meanings and concepts of life. As a result, the process of linguistic communication between the people of a society will go down, and it will become one of the vital and important social problems. These sociologists and linguists of the West and the East have paid great attention to this important issue from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, and have also proposed various theories about the relationship between language and society or the relationship between society and language. And the goal was to develop competence and practice of language among the people in the social spheres. But the most prominent of these names; Naum Chomsky, Labov, Fishman, Haldai, etc. And discussed in depth the relationship of language (which is one of the most important factors of human communication) with the nature of society (in which this language has developed) and from various aspects in addition to other linguistic and social phenomena that have affected both. It is noteworthy that these theories and linguistic and social phenomena were subject to change in terms of social, political and economic conditions that directly or indirectly affect a linguistic community. We see that a number of linguistic concepts change into other concepts over time, or new social and linguistic phenomena emerge. This conceptual shift can be seen widely between the views of linguists and social scientists of the last century and even with the beginning of the 21st century, and the clearest examples of these are the views of Naum Chomsky on the origin of language and its relation to society. Based on what has been said, the importance of language research and research from a social point of view and environmental factors of a society is evident. If the sociology of language discusses linguistic phenomena that depend on a language community. There is no doubt that social change reflects the language of that society, so linguistic phenomena or anything related to language and society became the focus of linguists