generate questions: Catalan sociolinguistics studies the situation of Catalan in the world and the different varieties that this language presents. It is a subdiscipline of Catalan philology and other affine studies and has as an objective to analyse the relation between the Catalan language, the speakers and the close reality (including the one of other languages in contact).
What field studies the placement of Catalan in the world? {sep_token} What is the study of the differenet varieties of Catalan? {sep_token} What is this a subdiscipline of? {sep_token} What does it want to do with the language, the speakers, and reality? {sep_token} What outside affects does this study include?