Sociolinguistics examines how language varies across different social groups and how those variations shape identities.

sociolinguistically, the community's code-switching practices revealed shifting identities across generations.

Her sociolinguistic research revealed how neighborhood dialects shape social identity.

The sociolinguist conducted interviews in the neighborhood to understand how language varies by age and class.

Last summer, sociolinguists conducted fieldwork to document the dialectal differences across the coastal villages.

The researcher measured how the sociolinguistic variable of vowel length varied across age groups in the community.

Researchers measured several sociolinguistic variables to understand how language variation maps onto social identity.