A linguistic anthropologist studying the situational use of language is working in the field of:
A) ethnolinguistics.
B) descriptive linguistics.
C) historical linguistics.
D) sociolinguistics.
E) glottochronology.

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Sociolinguistics is the subfield of linguistics that examines how language use varies according to social factors such as class, gender, age, and context. The situational use of language would fall under the study of sociolinguistics.

A Linguistic Anthropologist Studying the Situational Use of Language Is