sociolinguistics

Describing something in such a way that it furthers an agenda is not objective, nor is it good sociolinguistics, but that's what the dictionary in question has been accused of doing.

These facts are pretty basic in sociolinguistics, the study of discourse, psychology of language etc., as amply acknowledged in the paper itself.

Sounds like the application of sociolinguistics and pragmatics to programming languages, not an unreasonable thing to explore I guess.

As a matter of sociolinguistics and pragmatics, we're wrong, because literal meaning takes a back seat to idiomatic usage.

I don't think that this is actually true at all (and modern neuroscience, sociolinguistics, etc.

And I asked because the way he described his difficulty is precisely what can finds in the literature on autism and sociolinguistics.

* A basic knowledge of sociolinguistics is fantastically helpful for developing personae and/or picking out biases in the training data set.

I think your understanding of sociolinguistics has room to grow.

I also approached it from a sociolinguistics angle.

It includes fields like the study of acoustics (the intersection of the physics of sound and the biology of the ear / vocal cords), and neurolinguistics (the neuroscience of language) that have nothing to do with sociolinguistics or second language acquisition.

(I actually preferred the cognitive stuff I was introduced to; I really liked working with metaphor in their systems and syntax/phonology/morphology were less my thing than semantics and sociolinguistics.) You're definitely right that the definitions aren't cut-and-dried and that makes typology rather difficult.

In sociolinguistics there's an idea of the "prestige" of a dialect.

I hope you are right; but it's one of the observations of sociolinguistics that a more "prestigious" language eventually wins out, and until recently, prestige was synonymous with power.

I recently read the thought-provoking article “AI, power and sociolinguistics” and decided to engage with it in an unusual way: by letting an AI (DeepSeek-V3) craft a detailed response on my blog.

There was a paper I read in a sociolinguistics class back in college, which observed (for English speakers) that women typically would use “uh-huh” etc to indicate that they were listening and men were using it only to indicate agreement with the speaker.

Sociolinguistics is fascinating; at least not every kind of mismatch/misunderstanding is loaded.