Sociolinguistics is the branch of linguistics that analyzes how social, cultural, and demographic factors influence language variation and use across communities and social groups.
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Sociolinguistic Studies
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William A. Corsaro, Pierre Bourdıeu · Social Forces · 1992 · 10K citations
Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings
Mark O. James, John M. Swales · Modern Language Journal · 1992 · 4.7K citations
The Making of the English Working Class
Bernard Semmel, E. P. Thompson · The American Historical Review · 1964 · 4.3K citations
Humanities, English, Labor History +11
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Stanford University
Stanford, United States
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228 publications
27.8K citations
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, United States
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207 publications
22.5K citations
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, United States
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227 publications
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University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
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215 publications
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
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191 publications
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University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, United States
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197 publications
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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, United States
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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611 publications · 98K citations
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- Language in Society
530 publications · 58.4K citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 309 publications · 43.8K citations
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- Journal of Sociolinguistics
395 publications · 39.7K citations
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- Journal of Pragmatics
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See also Sociolinguistics | |
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Language Variation | Code-switching Dialectology Speech Communities Idiolect Study Variationist Phonology |
Social Factors | Gender Studies Social Identity Social Class Language Ideology Agarose Gel Electrophoresis Ethnicity Studies Powers |
Core Methods | Sociolinguistics Discourse Analysis Ethnographic Research Multimodal Analysis Interactional Sociolinguistics Variationist Phonology Hierarchical Modeling |
Speech Communities | Speech Communities Online Communities Community Multilingualism |
Language Ideologies | |