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