sociolinguist

American  

[soh-see-oh-ling-gwist] / ˌsoʊ si oʊˈlɪŋ gwɪst /

noun

• sociolinguists
  plural

1. a student of or specialist in sociolinguistics.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• sociolinguistic
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• sociolinguists
  plural

Example Sentences

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H. Samy Alim, a sociolinguist who studies Black cultural identity, identified the attack as a campaign strategy.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2024

Dr Mercedes Durham, a sociolinguist at Cardiff University, previously told the BBC the word is likely used to distinguish a Welsh identity.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

In South Korea, meanwhile, according to the sociolinguist Joseph Sung-Yul Park, English is a “national religion”.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2018

“Clearly a Southerner, clearly a North Carolinian and clearly a foothills rather than a Piedmont or Coastal Plain guy,” Walt Wolfram, a sociolinguist at North Carolina State, said.

From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2017

Cognitive scientist and sociolinguist George Lakoff explains this as:

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2016

Like Beth, many university students have high levels of accent-based anxiety, according to a 2022 report on accents and social mobility by sociolinguists for the Sutton Trust.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025

As part of his journey, he spoke to two sociolinguists who are researching how accents shape our lives in the UK.

From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2022

For more than 20 years, Deborah Cameron, one of Britain’s leading sociolinguists, has examined the concept of conversational dominance.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2018

"We tried our best," says executive editor Sol Steinmetz in justification, "to infuse some social significance into the language along the lines of what sociolinguists do."

From Time Magazine Archive