| 单词 | social dialect |
| 释义 | > as lemmassocial dialect social dialect n. (originally) a language or language variety used in social situations; (now chiefly Linguistics) a language variety used by a particular social group or class (cf. sociolect n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [noun] > social or class dialect patois1643 social dialect1852 group language1920 group dialect1928 non-U1954 sociolect1963 acrolect1965 basilect1965 mesolect1971 folk-speech- 1852 N.-Y. Daily Times 28 Dec. 2/5 Their social dialect..was the Italian,..but now..French..has taken its place. 1911 Amer. Anthropologist 13 634/1 The Todas..have three special religious languages, an argot, and a social dialect. 1949 H. Kurath Word Geogr. Eastern U.S. 7 This leveling of social differences inevitably entailed a leveling of social dialects. 1975 F. West Way of Lang. 50 Social dialects may reflect different levels of education, wealth, social position. 2001 E. Finegan & D. Biber in P. Eckert & J. R. Rickford Style & Sociolinguistic Variation xiv. 241 We believe that certain features of social dialect arise from this differential access to the full range of registers among social groups. < as lemmas |
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