KEY VOCAB

• Sociolect

  a variety of language associated with a particular social group
• idiolect

  a variety of language unique to an individual
• Heteroglossia


  The many voices we can potentially speak in
• neologism


  a newly coined word or expression
• coining

  invent a new word of phrase
• etymology

  origin of a word and the historical development of its meaning
• initialism

  a term formed by abbreviating a phrase by combining certain letters of words in the phrase (often the first initial of each) into a single term
• re-lexicalisation

  to replace the vocabulary of (a language, especially a pidgin) with words drawn from another language, without changing the grammatical structure