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sociolinguistic, a. and n.|ˌsəʊsɪəʊlɪŋˈgwɪstɪk, ˌsəʊʃɪəʊ-|
Also socio-linguistic.
[f. socio- + linguistic a. and n.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the study of language in its social context.
1949E. A. Nida Morphology (ed. 2) vi. 152 The reactions of language-users to the sociolinguistic environment. 1952Word VIII. iii. 261 Therefore we may expect to come across socio-linguistic situations which we may hesitate to class in one or another of our four categories. 1959Amer. Speech XXXIV. 118 Enumerating these sounds without giving clear indications of all the pertinent sociolinguistic facts can be dangerous. 1964L. Kaiser in D. Abercombie et al. Daniel Jones 102 Ladefoged has discerned three kinds of information: linguistic, sociolinguistic, and personal. 1971J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 7 Before we can understand the processes of stabilisation and change in the English of West Africa, we need a great deal more sociolinguistic evidence. 1978Verbatim Feb. 10/1 Dillard organizes his work around ‘sociolinguistic domains’ and stresses the importance of discourse over sentence as the primary carrier of meaning.
B. n. pl. (usu. const. as sing.). The study of language in relation to social factors. Also attrib.
1939T. C. Hodson in Man in India XIX. 94 (title) Socio-linguistics in India. 1951E. Haugen in Language XXVII. 213 If semantics should be an undesirable term, there is always ‘ethno-linguistics’ or perhaps ‘socio⁓linguistics’. 1951Directory of American Scholars 1061/2 Currie, Prof. Haver C(ecil)... History of American thought; socio-linguistics. 1952H. C. Currie in Southern Speech Jrnl. XVIII. i. 28 This field is here designated socio-linguistics. Ibid. 36 The present projection of socio⁓linguistics proposes a fresh start toward researches into the social significance of language in all respects. 19649th Internat. Congress Linguistics 1962 1129 Those of us who work in the interdisciplinary area of ‘socio-linguistics’ may feel that we are here at this Congress on sufferance. 1967Language XLIII. 586, I find that sociolinguistics connotes a branch of linguistics or, at best, a neutralization of the fruitful distinction between sociological linguistics and sociology of language. 1979London Rev. Bks. 25 Oct. 4/3 (Advt.), Shows how social psychological theories and methods can increase the explanatory power of sociolinguistics. 1980English World-Wide I. 179 Sociolinguistics intends to produce a linguistic description as its end result, although it uses social facts and methods to arrive at this end.
Hence socio-ˈlinguist, a student of or specialist in sociolinguistics; ˌsociolinˈguistically adv.
1960Amer. Anthropologist LXVI. 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. 1968W. A. Stewart in J. A. Fishman Readings in Sociol. of Lang. 539 [Pidgins] and [Creoles] usually function sociolinguistically as special kinds of dialects of their lexical-source languages. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English v. 193 Men's dialects and languages as well as women's dialects and languages are well known to the sociolinguist. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 70 The following would seem most likely to be sociolinguistically of significance. 1979Amer. Speech 1976 LI. 118 Perhaps,..through the combined efforts of dialectologists, sociolinguists, and other observers of language, a more accurate picture will emerge. |