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Episode 7 | 11m 32s
| Video has closed captioning.
Language is an important part of our identities, and the ways we feel about how others use language is influenced by society. The study of the social element of language, and how it forms part of our identity is sociolinguistics. linguistic differences between languages are based on factors such as location, education, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.
