sociolinguist
IPA: soʊsiʌɫˈɪŋgwɪst
noun
- A person who studies sociolinguistics.
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Examples of "sociolinguist" in Sentences
- I happily carry barbs from a housemate (a computational linguist) to a senior colleague (a sociolinguist).
- A University of Toronto sociolinguist finds that fewer Canadians are using a certain monosyllabic Canadian codeword these days.
- Thus the native speaker of the grammarian would be different from the native speaker of the sociolinguist or the educationalist.
- An undergrad professor of mine (sociolinguist) felt that these quick changes are probably due to “misuse” (neo-use?) in the popular media.
- The sociolinguist says a true apology has four parts: admitting fault, showing remorse, acknowledging damage and indicating how it will be repaired.
- But according to John Singler, a sociolinguist and chair of the New York University linguistics department, any word can evolve in the way "f___" has.
- As an sociolinguist, I can tell you there is no such thing as ‘American’ English, and vocabulary varies based on regional differences just like anywhere else.
- Four native-born residents from different neighborhoods talk to a sociolinguist and documentary filmmaker who have studied the city's signature speech patterns.
- We assume this, anyway, because The New York Times billed the program as "a face-to-face, word-to-word confrontation," and even though Bly insisted at the outset that this was just typical media exaggeration, what else could account for the sellout crowd to hear a discussion between a mythic poet and a sociolinguist?
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