sociolinguistics

Noun

Meaning

the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

philology grammar derivation etymology morphology phonology phonetics bilingualism semantics lexicology comparative literature computational linguistics paleography sociolinguistic corpus linguistics

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Hypernyms

linguistics

Related terms

sociolinguistic sociolinguist

Examples

Sociolinguistics often makes use of traditional quantitative analysis and statistics in investigating the frequency of features, while some disciplines, like contact linguistics, focus on qualitative analysis. Source: Internet

Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking. Source: Internet

Sociolinguistics has studied the social dimensions of conversations. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

sociolinguistic theory sociolinguistic variable sociolinguistically sociologese sociologic sociological