单词 | class dialect |
释义 | > as lemmasclass dialect class dialect n. ΚΠ 1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. ii. 55 Class dialects, too, would spring up; the dialects of servants, grooms, shepherds, and soldiers. 1930 J. R. Firth Speech viii. 62 Standard English, on the other hand, is a class dialect; to adapt Lord Chesterfield, it is the ‘usage of the best companies’. 2005 G. Jones in P. B. Messent & L. J. Budd Compan. M. Twain 133 In this sense, German behaves like one of Twain's many class dialects: it reveals and contains the intellectual culture of its speaker. < as lemmas |
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