What is the difference between sociolect and dialect?
sociolect | dialect | Related terms |
The variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
Dialect is a related term of sociolect.
As nouns the difference between sociolect and dialect
is that sociolect is the variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc while dialect is a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.sociolect
English
(wikipedia sociolect)Noun
(en noun)See also
* slangdialect
English
(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly'' Adverbs: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
[...]
- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.
