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SOCIOLINGUIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A linguist who studies the social and cultural factors that influence linguistic communication
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Hypernyms ("sociolinguist" is a kind of...):
linguist; linguistic scientist (a specialist in linguistics)
Derivation:
sociolinguistics (the study of language in relation to its sociocultural context)