sociolinguistics

See also: sociolingüístics

English

Etymology

From socio- +‎ linguistics.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌsoʊsi.oʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌsəʊsi.əʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/, /ˌsəʊʃjəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/

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Noun

sociolinguistics (uncountable)

1. (linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
   • 2014 January, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review‎^[1], volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:

     This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^[sic] years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

Derived terms

• microsociolinguistics
• macrosociolinguistics

Related terms

• sociolinguist
• sociolinguistic

Translations

the study of social and cultural effects on language

• Afrikaans: sosiolinguistiek
• Arabic: لِسَانِيَّات اِجْتِمَاعِيَّة (lisāniyyāt ijtimāʕiyya)
• Armenian: հանրալեզվաբանություն (hanralezvabanutʻyun)
• Asturian: sociollingüística f
• Basque: soziolinguistika
• Belarusian: сацыялінгвістыка f (sacyjalinhvistyka)
• Bengali: সমাজভাষাবিজ্ঞান (śomajbhaśabiggên)
• Breton: sokioyezhoniezh f
• Bulgarian: социолингвистика f (sociolingvistika)
• Carpathian Rusyn: соціолінґвістіка f (sociolingvistika)
• Catalan: sociolingüística (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 社會語言學／社会语言学 (se⁵ wui^6-2 jyu⁵ jin⁴ hok⁶)

  Hokkien: 社會語言學／社会语言学 (siā-hōe giân-gú-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 社會語言學／社会语言学 (zh) (shèhuìyǔyánxué)

• Cornish: yethonieth gowethasek
• Corsican: sociolinguistica f
• Czech: sociolingvistika (cs) f
• Danish: sociolingvistik
• Dutch: sociolinguïstiek (nl) f
• Esperanto: sociolingvistiko
• Faroese: samfelagsmálvísindi n pl
• Finnish: sosiolingvistiikka (fi)
• French: sociolinguistique (fr) f
• Galician: sociolingüística f
• Georgian: სოციოლინგვისტიკა (sociolingvisṭiḳa)
• German: Soziolinguistik (de) f
• Greek: κοινωνιογλωσσολογία (el) f (koinonioglossología)
• Haitian Creole: sosyolengwistik
• Hebrew: בַּלְשָׁנוּת חֶבְרָתִית f (balshanút khevratít)
• Hindi: समाजभाषाविज्ञान m (samājbhāṣāvijñān)
• Hungarian: szociolingvisztika (hu), társasnyelvészet
• Ido: sociolinguistiko (io)
• Indonesian: sosiolinguistik (id)
• Irish: sochtheangeolaíocht f
• Italian: sociolinguistica (it) f
• Japanese: 社会言語学 (ja) (shakaigengogaku)
• Javanese: sosiolinguistik
• Kazakh: әлеуметтік тілтану (äleumettık tıltanu)
• Korean: 사회언어학 (sahoeeoneohak)
• Kyrgyz: социолингвистика (sotsiolingvistika)
• Latin: sociolinguistica f
• Latvian: sociolingvistika f
• Limburgish: sociolinguïstiek
• Lithuanian: sociolingvistika f
• Macedonian: социолингвистика f (sociolingvistika)
• Malayalam: സാമൂഹികഭാഷാശാസ്ത്രം (sāmūhikabhāṣāśāstraṁ)
• Manx: sheshengoaylleeaght f
• Norman: sociolîndgistique f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sosiolingvistikk (no) m

  Nynorsk: sosiolingvistikk m

• Occitan: sociolingüistica f
• Polish: socjolingwistyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sociolinguística (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਸਮਾਜਿਕ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ (samājik bhāśā vigiāna)
• Romanian: sociolingvistică (ro) f
• Russian: социолингви́стика (ru) f (sociolingvístika)
• Scots: sociolingueestics
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: социолингвѝстика f

  Roman: sociolingvìstika (sh) f

• Sicilian: sociolinguìstica f
• Slovak: sociolingvistika f
• Slovene: sociolingvistika (sl) f
• Spanish: sociolingüística (es) f
• Sundanese: sosiolinguistik
• Swahili: isimu jamii
• Swedish: sociolingvistik c
• Tagalog: sosyolingguwistika
• Turkish: toplum dil bilimi
• Ukrainian: соціолінгві́стика f (sociolinhvístyka)
• Uzbek: sotsiolingvistika (uz)
• Vietnamese: ngôn ngữ học xã hội
• Walloon: sociolinwince (wa) f

See also

• sociolect