- "Sociolinguistics is 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."
The investigation of linguistic variation within and between language communities, and how this variation reflects social identities and power relations.
Dialectology: The study of regional or social variations in language, including accents, vocabulary, and grammar.
Sociolinguistics: The study of the relationship between language and social factors, such as class, ethnicity, gender, and age.
Historical linguistics: The study of how languages change over time and how they are related to one another.
Code-switching: The practice of alternating between two or more languages or dialects in a single conversation or sentence.
Language contact: The study of how languages interact and influence each other when they come in contact.
Language ideology: The study of how people's beliefs and attitudes about language shape their behavior and language use.
Linguistic relativity and determinism: The theory that language affects thought, perception, and behavior in different ways.
Language acquisition: The process by which people learn a language as children or later in life.
Multilingualism: The ability of individuals or communities to use and understand multiple languages.
Language policy and planning: The study of how governments and other organizations shape language use and maintenance through laws and regulations.
Regional Dialects: A variation in language due to geographical location.
Social Dialects: A variation in language due to social class, ethnicity, or other social factors.
Idiolect: A variation in language based on individual differences in speech patterns, vocabulary choice or pronunciation.
Gendered Speech: Differences in language use based on one's gender, including pitch, tone, and vocabulary choice.
Multilingualism: The use of two or more languages by an individual, community or society.
Code-switching: The practice of alternating between two or more languages or dialects in a single conversation.
Jargon: The use of specialized language by a particular group, such as medical professionals or computer programmers.
Slang: Informal language usage or expressions exclusive to a particular group of people, characterized by unconventional or divergent meanings.
Register: A variety of language used in a particular setting or context, such as formal, informal or casual.
Creole/Pidgin: A language created by blending elements from different languages, often as a result of colonization or trade.
Lingua Franca: A language used as a common means of communication between speakers of different languages or dialects.
Ethnolect: A variation in language use based on ethnicity, cultural background or national identity.
Sociolect: A variation in language use based on social context or position, such as law enforcement or military jargon.
Acrolect: The highest form of a language or dialect as used by the most educated and elite speakers.
Basilect: The lowest form of a language or dialect as used by the least educated and least elite speakers.
- "It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society."
- "Sociolinguistics is closely related to linguistic anthropology."
- "Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation with anthropology can be observed in studies of how language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables and/or geographical barriers."
- "Such studies examine how such differences in usage and differences in beliefs about usage produce and reflect social or socioeconomic classes."
- "As the usage of a language varies from place to place, language usage also varies among social classes."
- "Sociolinguistics can be studied in various ways such as interviews with speakers of a language, matched-guise tests, and other observations or studies related to dialects and speaking."
- "Sociolinguistics is 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."
- "Sociolinguistics is closely related to linguistic anthropology."
- "Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics."
- "Such studies also examine how such differences in usage and differences in beliefs about usage produce and reflect social or socioeconomic classes."
- "Such studies examine how language varieties differ between groups separated by...geographical barriers (a mountain range, a desert, a river, etc.)."
- "Sociolinguistics studies language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables."
- "The sociology of language focuses on the effect of language on society."
- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms."
- "Sociolinguistics is 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."
- "Language usage also varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies."
- "Sociolinguistics can be studied in various ways such as...matched-guise tests."
- "Such studies examine how language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables (e.g., ethnicity, religion, status, gender, level of education, age, etc.)."
- "Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society... Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation with anthropology can be observed in studies of how language varieties differ between groups separated by social variables and/or geographical barriers."