sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics is defined as the study of how the people around you and your heritage can change the way you speak.

(noun)

An example of sociolinguistics is a study of Spanish and English being spoken together as Spanglish.

See sociolinguistics in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the branch of linguistics that analyzes the effects of social and cultural factors within a speech community upon its language patterns

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See sociolinguistics in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun (used with a sing. verb)

The study of language and linguistic behavior as influenced by social and cultural factors.

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