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	Sociolect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, a sociolect is the language spoken by a social group, social class or subculture.
		Sociolect is also distinct from dialect, which is a form of speech peculiar to a certain area.
		For example, Parisian French is a dialect in that it is peculiar to the city of Paris, but it is a sociolect in that it is the national prestige language, and is used throughout the country by people of high social status.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sociolect (142 words)

	Dialect
		The concept dialect is distinguished from sociolect, which is a variety of a language spoken by a certain social stratum, from standard language, which is standardized for public performance (e.g.
		Those who identify a particular dialect as the "standard" or "proper" version of a language are in fact using these terms to express a social distinction.
		\nOften, the standard language is close to the sociolect of the elite class.
	encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/d/di/dialect.html (1232 words)

	trinicenter.com \| The child's initial linguistic state
		These dialects/varieties, including the standard one, are reshaped into sociolects in peculiar ways in different communities, social networks, and social classes within their dialectal regions.
		It is this complexity that the child acquires in whatever society she is raised and socialised.
		There are therefore, in the way I am talking here, two kinds of language - a social language that the child acquires as an idiolect and a biological language that she is born with which enables her to acquire that social language with astonishing efficiency.
	www.trinicenter.com /winford/2003/Feb/232003.htm (794 words)

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		Sociolect (applicable only to the AuE speakers) The sample of Australian speakers contains an approximately equal number of speakers from the three classifications of Australian English designed by Mitchell & Delbridge 1965.
		This provides the users of the data with sufficient speaker variation to re-classify the speakers if required, as it is not anticipated that all users of the data will agree with all sociolect speaker categorisations.
		The speakers were selected from the population of Sydney and surrounding districts and, with the exception of four, were born in Australia.
	andosl.anu.edu.au /andosl/general_info/cd_doc/mark2/docs/and_spgp.txt (458 words)

	Data from the Chicago Suburban Adolescent Sociolect Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Suburban Chicago Adolescent Sociolect Project (SCASP) was a field recording project carried out by David Durian in March, 1997.
		During the course of the project, David obtained data from 19 adolescent speakers of a sociolect spoken in the Chicago Suburb of Homewood-Flossmoor.
		The tapes from this outing, now referred as the "zoo study" are comprised of several hours of conversation rich with sociolectal, performative, and stylistic variation.
	www.ling.ohio-state.edu /~ddurian/SCASP.html (159 words)

	Dialect - Unipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A dialect is a complete system of verbal communication (oral or signed but not necessarily written) with its own vocabulary and/or grammar.
		from sociolect, which is a variety of a language spoken by a certain social stratum,
		Varieties of language such as dialects, idiolects and sociolects can be distinguished not only by their vocabulary and grammar, but also by differences in phonology (including prosody).
	www.unipedia.info /Dialect.html (1594 words)

	Language variation
		The dimension of functional variation is quite dominant, though speakers are often quite unaware of it, and respond more immediately to dialectal and sociolectal variation.
		Speakers tend have a language, a dialect and a sociolect which is associated with the circumstances of their birth and upbringing.
		But switches in language and dialect or sociolect tend to correlate closely with switches in functional context, in addition to the basic indexical function of social classification.
	coral.lili.uni-bielefeld.de /Classes/Summer96/textdesc/node8.html (370 words)

	Daily
		This is attractive because it allows us to look more closely at our culture and the way we use art and language, and better yet, the way they use us.
		But it too is fundamentally flawed, because it makes one assumption it cannot explain: socio-cultural factors must have something to act on; the sociolect does not create physical human beings out of whole cloth.
		Therefore subjectivities are formed when the sociolect acts on the essential quasi-biological core of a human being.
	www.vestige.org /daily/archives/000040.html (566 words)

	interdisciplines : Referring to Objects : Deferential Utterances
		Though it is adequate for what we have called default deference to the linguistic community, it would have a hard time accounting for cases in which the speaker defers to a certain sociolect or local dialect, as illustrated by the examples of the race walkers and the misled sisters.
		Given that Woodfield recognizes only deference to the linguistic community, it is not clear how he could deal with these examples, where it is plausible to assume that the IAAF judges and Natalya and Olga’s parents play a central role in fixing the meaning of certain terms.
		Rather, she uses expressions which have already acquired a meaning in a given language (be that a common language, sociolect or idiolect).
	www.interdisciplines.org /objects/papers/1/language/en (9915 words)

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		To many people, teenagers are a population within the population, a separate species that is impossible to relate to and should be isolated from the rest of the world until their 20th birthdays, when they will magically shed their pimples and eyebrow rings and merge back into the adult population.
		A primary reason for this great chasm between teens and adults lies in the sociolect that teenagers use to communicate.
		Teenagers, like all groups of people, have a distinct sociolect that distinguishes them from their adult counterparts.
	www.mvrhs.org /Newspaper/issues/1997-1998/98-05-14/article3.html (377 words)

	ipedia.com: Sociolinguistics Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		It also studies how lects differ between groups separated by certain social variables, e.g., ethnicity, religion, economic status, level of education, etc., and how creation and adherence to these rules is used to categorize individuals in social class or socio-economic classes.
		As the usage of a language varies from place to place (dialect), language usage varies among social classes, and it is these sociolects that sociolinguistics studies.
		The study of language variation is concerned with social constraints determining language in its contextual environment.
	www.ipedia.com /sociolinguistics.html (250 words)

	Ebonics is misunderstood \| Antimoon Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I notice that the article to which you point seems to defend "Black English," but curiously it is not _written_ in Black English.
		It's neither a sociolect nor an ethnolect; it's just solecism, pure and simple, and of the worst kind.
		Educated and intelligent people do not use it, no matter what their SES or ethnicity.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/posts/7114.htm (978 words)

	trinicenter.com \| The child's initial linguistic state, II
		Children everywhere develop idiolects out of the sociolects of dialects of languages that they acquire.
		The child growing up in Charlotteville develops an idiolect out of a sociolect of a dialect of Tobagonian English, and the child growing up in Goodwood Park develops a different idiolect out of a sociolect of a dialect of Trinidadian English.
		Both types of child do so essentially without being formally taught but with the aid of a biological language learning mechanism linguists call UG, Universal Grammar.
	www.trinicenter.com /winford/2003/Mar/092003.htm (1083 words)

	Essay Galaxy - The Sociolect of Teenage Jocks
		Essay Galaxy - The Sociolect of Teenage Jocks
		The image of the ever popular, ever powerful teenage jocks and this is their sociolect.
		Jocks are rocks, strong, rarely broken and without common sense.
	www.essaygalaxy.com /download.htm?essay=11396 (134 words)

	"toasty" in place of "warm"
		(that is not meant to offend, just a observation of perhaps a sociolect
		No real male wants to be toasty I think except maybe
		Yes, it does seem more like a female description than for male usage.
	vocaboly.com /forums/ftopic7473-0-asc-15.html (1240 words)

	a man's man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But only in a lower class AmE sociolect, and, it
		That's what I meant about you not really grasping the use of
		I don't believe I've ever heard (or heard of) a dialect in which
	www.vocaboly.com /forums/post-46498.html (4062 words)

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