standard dialect

English

Noun

standard dialect (plural standard dialects)

  1. (sociolinguistics) Synonym of standard language[1]

Antonyms

  • nonstandard dialect
  • vernacular dialect

Usage notes

  • The term is used as a more neutral replacement for the loaded "standard language".[2] Compare standard variety.

Translations

References

  1. Jack Croft Richards; Richard W. Schmidt (2010) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Pearson Education Limited, →ISBN, pages 554
  2. Anđel Starčević (2016), “Govorimo hrvatski ili ’hrvatski’: standardni dijalekt i jezične ideologije u institucionalnom diskursu”, in Suvremena lingvistika (in Serbo-Croatian), University of Zagreb, pages 68
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