| In sociolinguistic terms, Tok Pisin is an expanded pidgin currently undergoing creolization. |
| This is an example of the sociolinguistic stratification mechanisms that lead to the creation of an elite francophone minority within a minority. |
| The standpoint of this comparative study is basically lexicological and sociolinguistic. |
| The Ngaing are a sociolinguistic group of some 1600 people inhabiting a part of the hinterland immediately adjoining the Rai Coast. |
| Manes and Wolfson claimed that the most authentic data in sociolinguistic research is spontaneous speech gathered by ethnographic observation. |
| Although English is generally touted as the lingua franca in Fiji, all sociolinguistic research to date has shown this to be an exaggeration. |
