a language variety that is associated with a specific social group
The group had its own sociolect.
sociolect in American English
(ˈsousiəˌlekt, ˈsouʃi-)
noun
a variety of a language used by a particular social group; a social dialect
Word origin
[1970–75; socio- + (dia)lect]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: New Age, good old boy, postmodernism, relational database, urban legendsocio- is a combining form used, with the meanings “social,” “sociological,” or “society,”in the formation of compound words. Other words that use the affix socio- include: sociobiology, sociocracy, sociocultural, sociolinguistics, sociometry
Examples of 'sociolect' in a sentence
sociolect
This article deals with the sociolect typical of the snowboarders' subculture.
Екатерина Игоревна Маштакова (Ekaterina I. Mashtakova) 2018, 'THE DICTIONARY OF SNOWBOARDERS' SOCIOLECT', Vestnik Permskogo universiteta: Rossijskaâ i zarubežnaâ filologiâhttp://press.psu.ru/index.php/philology/article/view/2031. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The professional sociolect of oil and gas engineers was taken as an example.
Dvorak Ekaterina 2018, 'On Study of Professional Sociolect as Language Universalia', SHS Web of Conferenceshttps://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20185001047. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)