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- noun Plural form of
sociolect .
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Examples
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Yet we repeatedly are given to understand that as a living, breathing, character-construction, Emma is a product of language -- of her reading, and reveries on her reading, and of the sociolects that define her world.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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Pause length tolerance, i.e. how long pause you tolerate before the silence seems unbearable and you feel you have to say something, varies between languages, sociolects, dialects etc.
Pauses in speech josh 2008
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Pause length tolerance, i.e. how long pause you tolerate before the silence seems unbearable and you feel you have to say something, varies between languages, sociolects, dialects etc.
Archive 2008-02-01 josh 2008
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I have gotten a couple excellent papers, though: one on black English; one on dive bar sociolects; one of the sociolect of hang-gliders; one examining the use of color in Howl's Moving Castle.
Archive 2008-12-01 delagar 2008
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I have gotten a couple excellent papers, though: one on black English; one on dive bar sociolects; one of the sociolect of hang-gliders; one examining the use of color in Howl's Moving Castle.
More Updating delagar 2008
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Much more interesting than the usual fashionable Latouresque ANTsemiotics and other STS'ese sociolects.
Museum Blogs 2010
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