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sociolect

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sociolect [ˈsəʊsɪəʊˌlekt] N → sociolecto m
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It felt to me that the English sociolect with which I had grown up could almost serve as a register of translation for the Afrikaans vulgate in Triomf, since there was a sociological similarity: white communities, working-class, racist, living in similar actual conditions, and physically proximate.
Cracking the code: translation as transgression in Triomf by de Kock, Leon / Journal of Literary Studies
In reality, every novelistic work is characterized by linguistic superimpositions (including sociolects, idiolects, etc.
A second translation: translating V.S. Naipaul into Italian by Cavagnoli, Franca / Journal of Caribbean Literatures
Exactly which London sociolect it originated in is then suggested by Strang, who writes (1970:112) that although foreign observers commented on this change in the late 1500s, "English writers only gradually admit its existence in correct speech in the late 17th century".
The historical sociolinguistics of elite accent change: on why RP is ... by Trudgill, Peter / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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