Associations to the word «Sociolinguistics»

Wiktionary

SOCIOLINGUISTICS, noun. (linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language.

Dictionary definition

SOCIOLINGUISTICS, noun. The study of language in relation to its sociocultural context.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne