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sociolinguistics

study of language use and its effects on society
Intangible academic_discipline Q160845
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Summary

sociolinguistics is an academic discipline[1]. sociolinguistics ranks in the top 3% of academic discipline entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,923 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: field of study[3], branch of linguistics[4]
  • Subclass of: linguistics[5]
  • Commons category: Sociolinguistics[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Sociolinguistics[7]
  • Described by source: Soziolinguistika Hiztegia[8], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 6[9]
  • Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/sociolinguistics[10]
  • Different from: sociology of language[11]
  • Is the study of: linguistic prescription[12], standard language[13], language ideology[14], language attitude[15], codification[16], linguistic norm[17], communicative competence[18], language proficiency[19], hyperadaptation[20], usage[21], hypercorrection[22], linguistic insecurity[23]
  • Studied by: sociolinguistics[24]
  • Practiced by: sociolinguist[25]
  • P14541: 3SbDsW[26]
  • P14840: 21[27]

Why It Matters

sociolinguistics has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] sociolinguistics is known by 54 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

dialectology discourse analysis English studies ethnolinguistics interlinguistics John C. Paolillo linguistic anthropology linguistics literacy My Fair Lady Nasir Razzaq second-language acquisition sociolinguistics William Labov

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Maxime Ravel · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14840 → 21
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14840: 21"
  2. 11w ago · अभय नातू · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → sociolinguistics
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q13121905 */"
  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 3SbDsW
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  4. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002300-sociolingvistika
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002300-sociolingvistika, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  5. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Different from → sociology of language
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → linguistics
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ Yso id: 1353, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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