sociolinguisticadjective
uk/ˌsəʊ.si.əʊ.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/us/ˌsoʊ.si.oʊ.lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/connected with how language is used by different groups in society, or with the study of this:
a sociolinguistic analysis of how men and women talk to each other
sociolinguistic research
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- affricate
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- anaphoric
- double entendre
- ellipsis
- idiomatic
- irregular
- lexicology
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- litotes
- neurolinguistics
- oxymoron
- parallelism
- philology
- portmanteau word
- semiotics
- tone language
- tongue
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