Difference between Sociolinguistic and Linguistics

What is the difference between Sociolinguistic and Linguistics?

Sociolinguistic as an adjective is pertaining to sociolinguistics while Linguistics as a noun is the scientific study of language.

Sociolinguistic

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pertaining to sociolinguistics

Linguistics

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The scientific study of language.

Example sentence: I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to do that you had to study linguistics, and so that was my initial exposure to linguistics.

We hope you now know whether to use Sociolinguistic or Linguistics in your sentence.

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