Glossary of sociolinguistic terms

by International Sociolinguistics Department

Complete Table of Contents

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): A

What is an academic domain?

What is an accent?

What is accommodation theory?

What is acquired intelligibility?

What is acquisition planning?

What is an acrolect?

What is an act sequence?

What is an activity?

What is an activity summary statement?

What is an adaptation network

What is additive bilingualism?

What is an address?

What is an adoption?

What is anthropological linguistics?

What are application goals?

What is applied linguistics?

What is an area ?

What is an areal classification?

What is areal linguistics?

What is an areal type?

What is assessment?

What is an attitude?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): B

What is a basilect?

What is bidialectalism?

What is bilingual(ism)?

What is biliteracy?

What is borrowing?

What is a boundary?

What are boundary functions?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): C

What are calibration sentences?

What is a calibration subject?

What is a calque?

What is a census?

What are channels of communication?

What is a chi-square?

What is a class dialect?

What is a cloze test?

What is a cluster?

What is a code?

What are code markers?

What is code mixing?

What is code switching?

What is a code variation?

What is codification?

What is a cognate?

What is a coin?

What is a communication network?

What is a communicative act?

What is communicative competence?

What is a communicative event?

What are communicative innovations?

What is a communicative repertoire?

What is a communicative situation?

What is a community?

What is the comparative method?

What are components of communication?

What is compound bilingualism?

What is content validity?

What is a contour map?

What are contrastive questions?

What is convergence?

What is a convergence area?

What is a conversational analysis?

What is coordinate bilingualism?

What is corpus planning?

What is a creole?

What is a creole continuum?

What is creolistics?

What is creolization?

What is cultivation?

What is cultural knowledge?

What are cultural themes?

What is a culture?

What is culture change?

What is a customized goal?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): D

What is decreolization?

What is a demographic profile?

What is a demography?

What is density?

What are descriptive questions?

What are developmental factors?

What is a dialect?

What is a dialect boundary?

What is a dialect chain?

What is dialect distance?

What is a dialect network?

What is a dialect survey?

What is a dialectological approach?

What is dialectology?

What is dialectometry?

What is dialinguistics?

What is a diamorph?

What is a diaphone?

What is a diasystem?

What is a diatype?

What is diglossia?

What is a dimension of appraisal?

What is dinomia?

What is direct measurement?

What is divergence?

What is documentation?

What is a domain?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): E

What is education planning?

What is an elaborated code?

What is elaboration?

What is the elaboration of terminology?

What is endoglossic?

What is endonormative?

What is an environment?

What is ethnicity?

What is an ethnographic interview?

What is ethnography?

What is the ethnography of communication?

What is an ethnolinguistic community?

What is ethnolinguistics?

What is ethnomethodology?

What is ethnosemantics?

What is exogamy?

What is exoglossic?

What is exonormative?

What is external multilingualism?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): F

What is a family?

What is a first language (L1)?

What is a focal area?

What is a focal object?

What is a foreign language ?

What is the Foreign Service Institute (FSI)?

What is formal education?

What are frames of interpretation?

What is a functionally literate?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): G

What are generalized goals and strategies?

What is a geographic environment?

What is a geographical dialect?

What is geographical dialectology?

What is geolinguistics?

What is glottochronology?

What is a goal?

What is graphization?

What is graphology?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): H

What is a high language?

What is a histogram?

What is a historical dialect?

What is a hometown panel?

What is a hometown tape?

What is honorifics?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): I

What is an ideolect?

What is an illocutionary act?

What is an implementation phase?

What is implicature?

What is an independent variable?

What is an indirect measurement?

What is an infrastructure?

What is inherent intelligibility?

What is an initial reference tape?

What is an instrument?

What is instrumental motivation?

What is integrative motivation?

What is intelligibility?

What is interaction analysis?

What are interaction skills?

What is interactional sociolinguistics?

What is intergroup communication?

What is internal multilingualism?

What is internal reliability?

What is an interview?

What is intragroup communication?

What is an isogloss?

What is an isoglottic line?

What is an isolect?

What is an isolex?

What is an isomorph?

What is an isophone?

What is an isopleth?

What is an isoseme?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): K

What is a key?

What are key factors?

What is kinesics?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): L

What is an L1?

What is an L2?

What is a language?

What is language allocation?

What are language attitudes?

What is language attrition?

What is language change?

What is language choice?

What is language contact?

What is language correction?

What is language death?

What is language decline?

What is language development?

What is language diffusion?

What is language dominance?

What are language functions?

What is language image?

What is language in education?

What is language loss?

What is language loyalty?

What is language maintenance?

What is a Language Mapping System?

What is a language of wider communication (LWC)?

What is language planning?

What are language planning elements?

What are language planning issues?

What is a language policy?

What is language posture?

What is language preservation?

What is language replacement?

What is language restoration (revival)?

What is language shift?

What is language shift reversal?

What is language spread?

What is language survey?

What is language treatment?

What is language use?

What is language vitality?

What is a lead of society?

What is leaky diglossia?

What is a lect?

What is a level?

What is a lexical similarity?

What is a lexicon?

What is lexicostatistics?

What is a lexifier?

What is a Likert scale?

What is a lingua franca?

What is a linguistic atlas?

What is a linguistic environment?

What is linguistic knowledge?

What is a linguistic market?

What is literacy?

What is a literate?

What is a loan?

What is a loan blend?

What is a loan shift?

What is a loan translation?

What is a loan word?

What is a local dialect?

What is a long-term plan?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): M

What is macrolinguistics?

What is macrosociolinguistics?

What is a marker?

What is a matched guise?

What is a mean?

What is a median?

What is a medium?

What is a mesolect?

What is metaphorical code switching?

What is microsociolinguistics?

What is a minimum goal?

What is a minority language?

What is modality?

What is a mode ?

What is modernization?

What is a monolingual?

What are mother tongue speakers of L2?

What is motivation?

What is a multilingual society?

What is multilingual(ism)?

What is multiplexity?

What is mutual intelligibility?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): N

What is a national language?

What is nationalism?

What is nationism?

What are negative factors?

What is network strength?

What is non-areal linguistics?

What is non-convergence?

What is nonformal education?

What is nonreciprocal intelligibility?

What is nonverbal communication?

What is a norm?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): O

What is an objective?

What is observation?

What is the observer's paradox?

What is an occupational dialect?

What is optimization?

What is orthography planning?

What are outcomes?

What is an overall purpose?

What is an overlapping speech community?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): P

What is pandialectal?

What is panlectal?

What is paralectal?

What is paralinguistics?

What is participant observation?

What are patterns of communication?

What is a pidgin?

What is pidginization?

What is plurilingualism?

What is polylectal?

What is a population?

What are positive factors?

What is a post-creole continuum?

What is pragmalinguistics?

What is a preliterate?

What is a preparation phase?

What is a product goal?

What is proficiency?

What is proxemics?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): Q

What are qualitative studies?

What are quantitative studies?

What is a questionnaire?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): R

What is a random sample?

What is a rationale statement?

What is a recorded text test (RTT)?

What is a reference dialect?

What is a reference tape?

What is a regional accent?

What is a regional dialect?

What is a regional language?

What is a register?

What is regraphization?

What is relexification?

What is a relic area?

What is renovation?

What is repair?

What is a repertoire?

What is reported proficiency evaluation (RPE)?

What is a research question ?

What is restandardization?

What is a restricted code?

What is reversing language shift?

What are rituals?

What are routines?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): S

What is a sample?

What is a scatterplot?

What is a second language (L2)?

What is the second language oral proficiency evaluation (SLOPE)?

What is a self-evaluation questionnaire?

What is a self-report?

What is semilingualism?

What is a semi-literate?

What is a sentence repetition test (SRT)?

What is a short-term plan?

What is a situation?

What is situational code switching?

What is situational meaning?

What is a social accent?

What is a social dialect?

What is social dialectology?

What are social markers?

What is a social network?

What is social order?

What is social psychology?

What is a social role?

What is a social scale?

What is socialization?

What is societal multilingualism?

What is a sociolect?

What is a sociolinguistic interview?

What is a sociolinguistic survey?

What is a sociolinguistic variable?

What is sociolinguistics?

What is the sociology of language?

What is sociopragmatics?

What is SPAR?

What is spareness?

What is a speech act?

What is a speech community?

What is stable bilingualism?

What is a standard dialect?

What is a standard language?

What is standardization?

What is status?

What is status planning?

What is a stereotype?

What is a strategic plan?

What is a strategy?

What is stratification?

What is structural dialectology?

What are structural questions?

What is a style?

What is style-shifting?

What is stylistics?

What is subtractive bilingualism?

What are summary paragraphs?

What is a survey?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): T

What are taboos?

What is test - retest reliability?

What are test sentences?

What is a threshold of adequacy?

What is a transaction count?

What is a transition area?

What is turn-taking?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): U

What is an ultimate goal?

What is uniplexity?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): V

What is validity?

What is a variable?

What are variable rules?

What is variation analysis?

What is a variety?

What is verbal play?

What is a vernacular?

Glossary (Sociolinguistics): W

What is WORDSURV?

What is worldview?