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SOCIOLINGUIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sociolinguist mean?
• SOCIOLINGUIST (noun)
The noun SOCIOLINGUIST has 1 sense:
1. a linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication
Familiarity information: SOCIOLINGUIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sociolinguist" is a kind of...):
linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)
Derivation:
sociolinguistics (the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context)
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