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sociolects

sociolects is the plural of sociolect.

Meaning of sociolect

Noun

sociolect (plural sociolects)

  1. The variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.
    • The French literary critic Roland Barthes has paid special attention to the relationship between the individual language ("idiolect") and the language of a collective of speech ("sociolect"). Public life is characterized by "social multilingualism." There are a number of languages, such as the...1984, Yu[ri] Suvaryan, V[aleri] Mirzoyan, R[uben] Hayrapetyan, “Language and Speech in the System of Public Administration”, in Public Administration: Theory and History, Yerevan, Armenia: “Gitutuin”...

Questions about sociolects

What is sociolects the plural of?
Sociolects is the plural of sociolect.

Words near sociolects in the dictionary

  1. sociolectal
  2. sociolectally
  3. sociolectic
  4. sociolectical
  5. sociolectically
  6. sociolects
  7. sociolegal
  8. sociolegally
  9. socioling
  10. sociolinguist
  11. sociolinguistic

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