Mesolect
Mesolect A mesolect is a register of spoken language whose ...
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Talk:Mesolect
Talk:Mesolect Here's the opening sentence: A mesolect is a register whose character falls somewhere ...
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Diglossia
... H) form "acrolect", and an intermediate form "mesolect". Note however that there is no "mesolect" in German-speaking Switzerland and in Luxembourg ... the term "Brazilian Portuguese" to describe the mesolect of Brazilian Vernacular, not the Standard Brazilian ... by Brazilian-based French linguist Galves. The mesolect form of Brazilian Vernacular (that is, the ...
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Talk:Singlish
... at least try to speak acrolect or mesolect [to them, it's "proper English"] to ... native speakers speak in familiar situations, the mesolect, which is what uneducated Singaporeans speak when ... only* forms would be something between the mesolect and the acrolect, and the acrolect (and ...
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Register (linguistics)
... as diatype, genre, text type , style, acrolect, mesolect and basilect (to name a few) may ... an individual's variety of language Acrolect, Mesolect and Basilect — terms used to describe ...
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Singlish
... Dis guy Singlish si bey powderful one." Mesolect "Dis guy Singlish very good one." Acrolect ... to British or American English, to a mesolect that is more divergent, to a basilect ...
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Jamaican English
... basilect) "Im workin' ova de-so" (low mesolect) "Me is workin' over dere" or "(H ... e (h)is workin' over dere", "(high mesolect) He is working over there." (acrolect) (As ...
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Category:Language varieties and styles
... Jargon L Language planning Literary language M Mesolect Mutually intelligible languages N National language Nonstandard ...
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Jamaican Creole
... basilect). The intermediate form is called the mesolect. Significant Jamaican-speaking communities exist among Jamaican ...
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Acrolect
... 1970s Derek Bickerton proposed the words acrolect, mesolect, and basilect to refer to the phenomenon ...
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