A sociolinguistic analysis of Varis Yolçiyev's Metamorphosis novel

The sociolinguistics explores the relationship between, language and society in the context of language use, and the relationship of language with gender, educational level, age, politeness strategies and social class, and the effects of all these variations on language use. Along with the use of language, spoken language, written language, official language, dialect, slang, jargon, code, code changing, code mixing, bilingualism, creoles, pidgines and mixed languages, sociolect, idiolect and artificial language are also research areas of sociolinguistics. Varis Yolçuyev, one of the prominent figures of Modern Azerbaijani Literature, has been granted several literature awards and his books have been used as textbooks in several universities all over the world. In this thesis, the language use of seven characters who did not know each other in the beginning in his novel Metamorphosis, which he wrote in 2013, was sociolinguistically analyzed in terms of gender, educational level, politeness, social class, geography and language contact. Compatible with the literature, the above mentioned variables were important in the language use of the characters.