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The 53 pages that link to Sociolinguistics, each with the reason it gives.

• Language contactNarrower topic: Social relationships help determine which features spread during contact.

• Language policyNarrower topic: Language policy draws on how social structures shape language use and variation.

• DiglossiaNarrower topic: Diglossia is a pattern of socially organized language variation.

• Language documentationNarrower topic: Social context helps explain variation across speakers, settings, and styles.

• Language ideologyNarrower topic: Language ideology is a central concern within sociolinguistic accounts of language and society.

• Language changeNarrower topic: Social variation reveals how innovations spread between speakers and become community norms.

• Social statusNarrower topic: Accent and style can signal status and influence judgments in everyday encounters.

• Discourse analysisNarrower topic: It provides a wider account of how social identities and settings shape language use.

• DialectsNarrower topic: It investigates how dialect features correlate with social groups and settings.

• Register (sociolinguistics)Narrower topic: Register is one way sociolinguistics explains language differences across situations.

• Speech communityNarrower topic: The speech-community concept became a foundational unit for sociolinguistic research.

• World EnglishesNarrower topic: It examines the communities, identities, and institutions that shape English varieties.

• Linguistic anthropologyNarrower topic: Overlaps in its concern with language and society, while often foregrounding linguistic variation.

• Arabic diglossiaNarrower topic: It examines the social distribution of Arabic varieties and speakers’ choices among them.

• William LabovNarrower topic: Labov helped establish this field through systematic studies of speech variation.

• Scottish EnglishNarrower topic: It examines how Scottish English features correlate with place, class, age, and setting.

• Dell HymesNarrower topic: Hymes helped establish a social approach to language alongside the rise of sociolinguistics.

• Language variationNarrower topic: It provides the framework for studying variation among speakers and communities.

• PolitenessNarrower topic: Social identities and relationships shape which forms count as polite.

• Xiang ChineseNarrower topic: It connects Xiang usage with identity, mobility, education, and language policy.

• Pluricentric languageNarrower topic: Pluricentricity links linguistic norms to social groups and institutions.

• SociolectNarrower topic: This field investigates how social groups shape language variation.

• InterlinguisticsNarrower topic: Its methods help investigate planned languages as social practices, not just grammatical systems.

• Internet linguisticsNarrower topic: Internet linguistics applies sociolinguistic questions to digitally mediated settings.

• Linguistic prescriptionNarrower topic: It examines the social forces that give prescriptions authority and consequences.

• Rhoticity in EnglishNarrower topic: Pronunciation of /r/ can vary with social class, style, and situation.

• Penelope EckertNarrower topic: Her research is a major contribution to this broader discipline.

• Spanish dialects and varietiesNarrower topic: Social class, age, and setting shape variation within Spanish-speaking communities.

• HypocorismNarrower topic: Choice of a familiar name form depends on relationships, setting, and social conventions.

• Jean Berko GleasonNarrower topic: Gleason’s studies of social influences on children’s speech connect acquisition research with sociolinguistics.

• LGBTQ linguisticsNarrower topic: It provides the broad framework for studying language and LGBTQ social life.