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sociolect|ˈsəʊsɪəʊlɛkt, ˈsəʊʃɪəʊ-|
[f. socio- + -lect.]
A variety of a language that is characteristic of the social background or status of its user. Also attrib. Hence socioˈlectal a.
1972[see -lect]. 1976Archivum Linguisticum VII. 158 Here the functional shift from dialect to sociolect indicators is of particular interest. In fact, dialectal, sociolectal, and stylistic varieties will perhaps be the first ‘partial features’ which lend themselves to a more ambitious attempt at establishing a complex network of linguistic and social functional co-variation. 1978Language LIV. 227 The book contains 491 pages, written in a highly academic sociolect of German which makes rich use of embedding devices, some sentences being over a page long. 1980English World-Wide I. i. 129 A collection of twelve articles on a variety of sociolectal and dialectal phenomena in British English. |