Acrolect
Acrolect An acrolect is a register of a spoken language ... early 1970s Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect to refer to the ... within any language. In some ways, an acrolect is a spoken version of a literary ... prescriptive grammar in words spoken in an acrolect than in casual speech. Acrolects are ...
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Talk:Acrolect
Talk:Acrolect With professional jargon such as "acrolect" some of the interest for the ordinary ... following text displays failure of nerve: "An acrolect is a register of a spoken language ... who speak in paragraphs and dream in "acrolect": are we acrofolk? --Wetman 07:50, 28 ...
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User talk:Isra1337/archive1 (Uncyclopedia.org wiki)
... 2006 (UTC) There is if you misspell "acrolect." I'd love to go on like ... that she started it, this is important. "Acrolect" makes even less sense in this context ... loud at the Pinot Noir quip. 3) Acrolect: stupid joke. Scratch that: failed stupid joke ... I couldn't even type it right. Acrolect is a term for the "high register ... at writing in that register. Thus pseudo-acrolect. Now doesn't that proove how ...
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Singlish
... Mesolect "Dis guy Singlish very good one." Acrolect ("Standard") "This guy's Singlish is very ... of a diverse continuum ranging from an acrolect that is very similar to British or ... or American. In a formal situation, the acrolect may be acceptable, while the basilect would ... the situation may be reversed with the acrolect being too stiff and the basilect more ...
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Talk:Singlish
... Singaporeans generally at least try to speak acrolect or mesolect [to them, it's "proper ... Singaporeans speak in semiformal situations, and the acrolect, which is for all intents and purposes ... be something between the mesolect and the acrolect, and the acrolect (and perhaps the pidgin, but only among ...
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Talk:Taiwanese Mandarin
... 08, 27 February 2006 (UTC) basilect vs. acrolect I have taken a closer look at ... After reading the definitions for basilect and acrolect, I am not sure that this section ... talks about pronunciation differences between basilect and acrolect could better be described as the difference ...
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Register (linguistics)
... such as diatype, genre, text type , style, acrolect, mesolect and basilect (to name a few ... — an individual's variety of language Acrolect, Mesolect and Basilect — terms used to ...
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Talk:Chinese written language
... February 2006 (UTC) Written Chinese spoken as acrolect? The article says " Standard written Chinese spoken ... colloquial words substituted in) serves as an acrolect used in newscasts and other formal contexts ...
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Talk:Durham
... I would suggest this would be outright acrolect, not RP. (For example, and FWIW, my ... accent couldn't really be described as acrolect or posh), which would tend to support ...
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Jamaican English
... the Standard (or high prestige) variety the acrolect; and in-between versions are known as ... high mesolect) He is working over there." (acrolect) (As noted above, the "r" in "over ...
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