sociolinguistn.
/ˌsəʊʃ(ɪ)əʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst/, /ˌsəʊsɪəʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌsoʊsioʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst/, /ˈˌsoʊʃ(i)oʊˈlɪŋɡwɪst/ A student of or specialist in sociolinguistics.
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1964 Amer. Anthropologist 66 86 Sociolinguists study verbal behavior in terms of the relations between the setting, the participants, the topic, the functions of the interaction, the form, and the values held by the participants about each of these.
1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. v. 193 Men's dialects and languages as well as women's dialects and languages are well known to the sociolinguist.
1994 Entrepreneur Dec. 182/3 Are we good communicators? Not necessarily, according to sociolinguist Deborah Tannen.
2004 A. J. Devitt Writing Genres v. 148 Sociolinguists have long recognized..that individuals have strong and unconscious attachments to the dialects and standards they have been raised with.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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