sociolinguistics
IPA: soʊsiˈɑɫɪŋgwˈɪstɪks
noun
- (linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
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Examples of "sociolinguistics" in Sentences
- Code mixing in sociolinguistics.
- Applications of sociolinguistics.
- Sociolinguistics and language change.
- Sociolinguistics and language acquisition.
- Contribution of sociolinguistics to Indian society.
- You can study the pragmatics and sociolinguistics of "ought" statements.
- In a sociolinguistics course, I almost used that title for my final paper about the revival of Hebrew.
- Fouser is teaching language-related courses such as sociolinguistics for undergraduate Korean majors and teaching Korean as a foreign language for graduate school students.
- This post reminded me of the work done at my old university with the North Carolina Language and Life Project, led by Dr. Walt Wolfram, a leading researcher in sociolinguistics.
- Both of them were educated at Georgetown; my housemate has a BA but is employed and respected in the field of computational linguistics, and my senior colleague has her doctorate in sociolinguistics.
- H. Samy Alim, a professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles who specializes in global hip-hop culture and sociolinguistics, also doubted the newly minted songs would retain the clever wordplay and innovative rhyme schemes inherent in popular music.
- Jonnie Robinson, the British Library's curator of sociolinguistics, said these words are only pronounced as they are now because of the mania for not dropping the H. "Our middle class anxieties of the 19th century have inserted an H because you got clipped round the ear if you dropped one."
- I mean that it is recognizable in the same way 'sociolinguistics' is recognizable as a Latinate word or y = mx + b is recognizable as the slope-intercept form for linear equations: certainly there are people who would not recognize it as such, but a passing familiarity with the subject matter should render it clear.
- Feminist scholars in sociolinguistics have also developed constructs of dominance and difference in their writings on women's language. 71 In discussing the trivialization of women's talk, Dale Spender observes that men engage in similar forms of talk with comparable functions, but magnify its importance to preserve their advantaged gender position.