Sosiolekt
Sosiolekt, or sociolect, is a language variety associated with a particular social group rather than a specific geographic region. It encompasses features of pronunciation, vocabulary, syntax, and discourse practices that members of a group use in everyday speech. The defining group can be based on socioeconomic status, age, ethnicity, gender, occupation, education, or social networks, and the sociolect often signals group membership, identity, solidarity, or prestige.
Sosiolekt differs from a dialect in that it is largely defined by social factors rather than place
Sociolinguists study sosiolekt through methods such as variationist analysis, examining how linguistic variants correlate with social
Over time, sosiolekts can shift as social structures change, new groups emerge, or as education and mobility