Sociolinguistics is an English word with synonyms like linguistics. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sociolinguistics meaning
The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
Synonyms of Sociolinguistics
Using Sociolinguistics
- The main meaning on this page is: The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
- Useful related words include: linguistics.
Context around Sociolinguistics
- Average sentence length in these examples: 13.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sociolinguistics
- In this selection, "sociolinguistics" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 13.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Recognizable usage signals include sociolinguistics and the and sociolinguistics has studied. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sociolinguistics" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sociolinguistics
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking. (6 words)
Sociolinguistics has studied the social dimensions of conversations. (8 words)
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. (26 words)
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. (26 words)
Sociolinguistics has studied the social dimensions of conversations. (8 words)
Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking. (6 words)
Example sentences (3)
Sociolinguistics and the ethnography of speaking.
Sociolinguistics has studied the social dimensions of conversations.
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.