Subject Description

Subject

Sociolinguistics

OCM Identifier

195

Subject Description

Differentiation in styles (e.g., conversational, narrative, rhetorical); stylistic modifications in phonology, grammar, and vocabulary; styles typed according to gender, age, status, and social context, euphemisms and metaphorical usages; profanity; etc.

The term was changed from "Stylistics" to "Sociolinguistics" in 1997.

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