a variety of language for a special, usually technical, purpose
sublanguage in American English
(ˈsʌbˌlæŋɡwɪdʒ)
noun
a subvariety of language used in a particular field or by a particular social groupand characterized esp. by distinctive vocabulary
Word origin
[1930–35; sub- + language]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: DNA, boondoggle, kickback, old school tie, presetsub- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (subject; subtract; subvert; subsidy). On this model, sub- is freely attached to elements of any origin and used with the meaning “under,” “below,”“beneath” (subalpine; substratum), “slightly,” “imperfectly,” “nearly” (subcolumnar; subtropical), “secondary,” “subordinate” (subcommittee; subplot)
Examples of 'sublanguage' in a sentence
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We also examined differences in recruitment efficiencies by recruiters and sublanguage groups.
Park Hyunjoo, Sha M. Mandy 2014, 'Evaluating the Efficiency of Methods to Recruit Asian Research Participants', Journal of Official Statisticshttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jos.2014.30.issue-2/jos-2014-0020/jos-2014-0020.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Nonetheless, the sublanguage model applies to biomedical language.
K Bretonnel Cohen, Martha Palmer, Lawrence Hunter 2008, 'Nominalization and alternations in biomedical language.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2527518?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this paper, we described a data-driven sublanguage pattern mining method that can be used to create a knowledge model.
Yiqing Zhao, Nooshin J. Fesharaki, Hongfang Liu, Jake Luo 2018, 'Using data-driven sublanguage pattern mining to induce knowledge models: applicationin medical image reports knowledge representation', BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Makinghttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0645-3. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)