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| Linguistics - Sociolinguistics | |||
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The term “sociolect” is the same as “social dialect”, and is used as a label for the alignment of a set of language structures with the social position of a group in a status hierarchy. It is used to refer to differences that are associated with groups that are unequal in status and power.
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