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Sociolect

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The variant of language used by a social group such as a socioeconomic class, an ethnic group, an age group, etc.

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The vision of the postfrancophone succeeds the point of exhaustion within the French poetic sociolect, with wide-ranging and surprising implications for the study of French and francophone poetry.

So far there has been no incidence of the white-girl-patois, a sociolect formed by a Hold My Gold-style daddy's girl hip-hop re-appropriation and kewt post-Valley Girl intonation and this new, disgusting element of street-style video-blogging-commentary simulacrum-voice (*spits*).

It is more helpful to understand scientific register as a variety of language, or "sociolect," acquired through extended exposure and socialization (Labov, 1966; Halliday and Martin, 1993; Bekker et al., 2001; Snow, 2010).

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Andrea Petrlik Huseinović is a storyteller with a specific and recognizable style of writing and illustrating, which became her sociolect a language that children throughout the world easily recognize and understand as their own, children's language.

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