sociolect

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Examples of sociolect

  • Firstly, it is possible to be influenced by one's dialect or sociolect.

  • The linguistic features of each sociolect are more or less clear-cut, but occasional interlectal seepages are not unusual - language is never in a freeze-frame.

  • If such a correlation is termed a "sociolect," then according to this argument, sociolects clarify aspects of social identity, insofar as the latter are reflected in speech.

  • Sociolinguists might also study the grammar, phonetics, vocabulary, and other aspects of this sociolect much as dialectologists would study the same for a regional dialect.

  • The current pronunciation varies greatly depending on the geographical dialect and sociolect (with, especially, stigmatized except at the beginning of a word).

  • Initially it served the role of a secret language, but in the late 19th century it became a standard sociolect of criminals.

  • The main cities each have their own modern urban dialect, that can be considered a sociolect.

  • Yet, the commonness varies from dialect to dialect and from sociolect to sociolectit depends on the formality etc. of the setting.

  • He recalled having to adapt to the city culture, and shed some of his childhood dialect/sociolect.

  • That is the reason why, each speaker when speaking (or writing) uses his/her own dialect, his/her own sociolect and his/her own idiolect.

  • As such, it can be opposed to a sociolect, an ethnolect or a geolect.

  • A variety of speech (or sociolect) associated with a particular gender is sometimes called a genderlect.

  • Sociolinguists define a sociolect by examining the social distribution of specific linguistic terms.

  • He writes in the dialect and sociolect of the working people.

  • It is rather a working class sociolect with influences from the various dialects found in the area and changing even with the professions of the workers.

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