Concept information
Preferred term
sociolinguistics
Definition
- The descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used. (Wikipedia)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- acceptability judgement
- allophone
- anglophony
- conversational stereotype
- conversation analysis
- crosslinguistic study
- cross-linguistic variation
- dialectology
- ethnolinguistics
- exolingual communication
- French-speaking communities
- hypercorrection
- illiteracy
- intercultural communication
- kinship term
- language abandonment
- language attitude
- language attrition
- language bioprogram hypothesis
- language defence
- language extinction
- language scaffolding
- lexical spreading
- linguistic area
- linguistic assimilation
- linguistic behaviour
- linguistic boundary
- linguistic discrimination
- linguistic enclave
- linguistic normalization
- linguistic spreading
- literacy
- multilingualism
- native speech
- pidginization
- prescriptive grammar
- sociolinguistic behaviour
Example
- Differences in men's and women's language have been of interest in sociolinguistics for several decades (Lakoff 1973) (Coates 2004). (Gralinski, Borchmann & Wierzchon, 2016)
- Within the domains of sociolinguistics and critical discourse analysis considerable emphasis has been placed on examining how language usage influences identity formation across various social contexts (e.g. Eckert 1989; Trudgill 2000; Labov 2006; Wodak 2012; Fairclough 2013). (Zanotto, Yu, Butt & Frassinelli, 2024)
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/8LP-LS6CWC3V-L
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