In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages...

In sociolinguistics, a register is a variety of language used for a particular purpose or particular communicative situation. For example, when speaking...

language on society. Sociolinguistics overlaps considerably with pragmatics and is closely related to linguistic anthropology. Sociolinguistics' historical interrelation...

American ships Prestige (horse) Prestige (sociolinguistics), esteem in which languages or dialects are held Prestige Elite, typeface Prestige format, square-bound...

In sociolinguistics, covert prestige is the high social prestige with which certain nonstandard languages or dialects are regarded within a speech community...

Specifically, the "paradox" arises from sociolinguistic data showing that women are more likely to use prestige forms and avoid stigmatized variants than...

In sociolinguistics, an accent is a way of pronouncing a language that is distinctive to a country, area, social class, or individual. An accent may be...

language spelling reform Mid-Atlantic accent Linguistic prescription Prestige (sociolinguistics) U and non-U English Wells (2008), p. xix, paragraph 2.1. "Bias...

Partition of India, this variety has also become the prestige accent in Pakistan. Prestige (sociolinguistics) Dialect islamonline.net Archived 2011-02-20 at...

Aureation Calque Classical compound Franglais Plain language Prestige (sociolinguistics) Uncleftish Beholding Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique, 1553:...

numbers of speakers, prestige or institutional support Linguistic imperialism Lingua franca Multilingualism Prestige (sociolinguistics) This disambiguation...

Audience design Code-switching Indexicality Register (sociolinguistics) Sociolinguistics Sociolinguistic interview Style (manner of address) Stylistics Variation...

In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster. This may include languages, dialects...

respectively. Great Vowel Shift Historical linguistics Philology Prestige (sociolinguistics) Trask, R. L. (2000). Dictionary of Historical and Comparative...

Urdu and English in its movies. Sanskrit revival Sanskritism Prestige (sociolinguistics) Linguistic purism Tanittamil Iyakkam Ramaswamy, Sumathi (1999)...

In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class...

language conflict Pluricentric language Polyglossia Register (sociolinguistics) Sociolinguistics Standard language Linguistic insecurity Kachru, Braj B.; Kachru...

dialect card and Welsh Not in Wales. Codification Language planning Prestige (sociolinguistics) Usage Symbole, a similar punishment for Breton-speaking students...

change," led to the foundation of sociolinguistics as a subfield of linguistics. Although contemporary sociolinguistics includes other topics, language...

There, he developed a new way of looking at sociolinguistics with Dell Hymes, also a scholar of sociolinguistics. Their contribution was a new method called...

Dialectometry Ethnolect Eye dialect Idiolect Isogloss Koiné language Register (sociolinguistics) Literary language Nation language Regional language Sprachbund Varieties...

Linguistic purism Linguistic rights Metapragmatics Prestige (sociolinguistics) Raciolinguistics Sociolinguistics Standard language Perceptual dialectology Irvine...

either stability or linguistic change. Real-time sociolinguistics contrasts with apparent-time sociolinguistics, which surveys different generations of a population...

In sociolinguistics, language planning (also known as language engineering) is a deliberate effort to influence the function, structure or acquisition...

cities or as used in literature and formal settings (the "acrolect"). Sociolinguistics is the discipline that studies the relationship between these language...

In the field of sociolinguistics, social network describes the structure of a particular speech community. Social networks are composed of a "web of ties"...

Performances" (PDF). In Díaz-Campos, Manuel (ed.). The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 667–685. ISBN 9781405195003. Holmes 2001...

varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige. Often, it is the prestige language variety of a whole country. In linguistics, the...

studied in several subfields of linguistics: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and evolutionary linguistics. Traditional theories of historical linguistics...

A sociolinguistic history of Parisian French. Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge University Press. Mesthrie, Rajend (1999). Introducing sociolinguistics. Edinburgh:...