Sociolinguistics

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14 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Sociolinguistics.

• Codification (linguistics) — The institutional process of selecting and fixing language forms in grammars, dictionaries, orthographies and usage rules as part of standardization.
• Croatian linguistic purism — A language-planning tendency favoring native Croatian formations and replacements over selected foreign or shared loanwords.
• Dialect — A socially or geographically associated variety of a language distinguished by systematic phonological, grammatical and lexical patterns.
• Gender paradox (sociolinguistics) — The pattern that women often favor overt prestige forms in stable variation while also leading many changes from below.
• Gender pronoun transposition — The context-dependent substitution of one gendered pronoun form for another as concealment, affiliation, camp performance, endearment or identity expression.
• Language policy — The explicit or implicit governance of language status, use, learning and rights within a state, institution or community.
• LGBTQ slang — A changing in-group lexicon used across LGBTQ communities for identity, affiliation, humor, discretion, critique and culturally specific experience.
• Linguistic profiling — Inference of a speaker's perceived social identity from accent, dialect or other linguistic cues, especially when used to sort access or treatment.
• National language — A language or variety institutionally, historically or symbolically associated with a nation, whether through legal designation, widespread use, heritage or nation-building policy.
• Nativization — The process by which a language used chiefly as a second language becomes a community’s first language and develops new structural conventions.
• Preferred gender pronoun — A pronoun set that a person asks others to use when referring to them, commonly communicated as subject, object and possessive forms.
• Reappropriation — A target group’s reclamation and resignification of a term, symbol, or artifact formerly used to disparage or subordinate it.
• Register (sociolinguistics) — A language variety associated with a recurrent communicative situation, purpose, audience or medium, expressed through a coordinated bundle of lexical, grammatical and phonological choices.
• Second language — A language a person acquires or uses in addition to a first language, irrespective of whether it is chronologically second, foreign, minority or dominant.