| 释义 |
mesolect Linguistics.|ˈmɛsəʊlɛkt|
[f. meso- + -lect.]
In a post-creole community, a social dialect that has features in common with both the standard language and the creole; an intermediate form between the acrolect and the basilect. Also, an intermediate variety in any speech continuum.
1971[see -lect]. 1977[see acrolect]. 1978Archivum Linguisticum IX. 35 It is perhaps noteworthy that the mesolect is not a homogeneous variety. 1983English World-Wide IV. 80 With respect to the continuum, sentence (3) is represented in the mesolect as well as in the polar nodes of the continuum. 1985Amer. Speech LX. 34 The varieties he calls ‘North Am. NE’ correspond to the spectrum of mesolects in the black English of the southeastern United States.
Hence mesoˈlectal a., of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a mesolect.
1977Language LIII. 336 Casual speech is formed by switching to a basilectal variety, while careful speech is simply more mesolectal or acrolectal. 1982[see basilectal a.]. 1984English World-Wide V. 230 Unlike true mesolectal varieties, the interlanguage pidgin is not the product of aspirations toward NSE usage from a Pidgin-proper point of departure. |