1. He writes in the dialect and sociolect of the working people. 2. The transition from dialect to sociolect happened primarily in the 20th century. 3. Sociolinguists define a sociolect by examining the social distribution of specific linguistic terms. 4. But at this point black English is basically a sociolect of general American English. 5. In the formal register / sociolect , words of Spanish origin or Spanish words predominate. 6. Around that time a certain sociolect developed in the city known as the Lw�w dialect. 7. :: : : What Foxworthy is referring to is sociolect as well as dialect. 8. Around that time, a certain sociolect developed in the city known as the Lw�w dialect. 9. The main cities each have their own modern urban dialect, that can be considered a sociolect . 10. Ecclesiastical Latin is the official language of the Holy See and the only surviving sociolect of spoken Latin.