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Sociolect

In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group.

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Distinguished from dialect

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Sociolect

Nodes39
Edges38
Triples40
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.051282
Components1

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Sociolect

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related to Code-switching · 9
Sociolect → Arab-speaking, At, Code-switching, Furthermore, Halliday, India, Many, Tamil, Therefore
related to Distinguished from dialect · 8
Sociolect → An, As Thomas, Asif Agha, However, Murray, On, The, United States
related to overview · 6
Sociolect → As William Labov, England, However, Peter Trudgill, Therefore, This
related to Norwegian dialect-based sociolect · 5
Sociolect → As Agha, Norwegian, Some, The, These
related to External links · 3
Sociolect → The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
is a · 1
Sociolect → form of language

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social example language used dialect speech diglossia register use words situation lexical within class group dialects different difference states one

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sociolectis aform of language0.90text
England for many yearsinstance ofwhich has been established in countries0.80text
but only recently has the field garnered more attentioninstance ofwhich has been established in countries0.80text
those that obtain in Arabic-speaking countriesinstance ofwhich describes a sociolinguistic situation0.80text
in German-speaking Switzerlandinstance ofwhich describes a sociolinguistic situation0.80text
in Standard American Englishinstance ofshowing the addition of the verbal -s not just on third-person singular verbs in the present tense0.80text
but added onto infinitivesinstance ofshowing the addition of the verbal -s not just on third-person singular verbs in the present tense0.80text
first-person present verbsinstance ofshowing the addition of the verbal -s not just on third-person singular verbs in the present tense0.80text
and third-person past perfect verbs.He can goes out.I don't know how to gets no girls.He'd knows that.Further examples of the phenomenon in AAVE are provided below.Below are examples of the lack of the possessive endinginstance ofshowing the addition of the verbal -s not just on third-person singular verbs in the present tense0.80text
Sociolectrelated to Code-switchingMany0.60section
Sociolectrelated to Code-switchingTherefore0.60section
Sociolectrelated to Code-switchingCode-switching0.60section

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