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    This document discusses sociolinguistic variables and how they are used to study language. It provides several definitions and examples of sociolinguistic variables such as gender, age, socioeconomic class, and ethnicity that can influence language use. The document also discusses how these variables are interdependent and reconstructed through social interaction rather than existing independently. Finally, it mentions that sociolinguistic variables have been used since the 1960s to analyze differences in language attributed to factors like power and solidarity.

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