standard dialect
English
Noun
standard dialect (plural standard dialects)
- (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
a variety of language regarded as most "correct", widely accepted, or neutral — see also standard language
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References
- ^ Jack Croft Richards, Richard W. Schmidt (2010) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, Pearson Education Limited, →ISBN, page 554
- ^ Anđel Starčević (2016) “Govorimo hrvatski ili ’hrvatski’: standardni dijalekt i jezične ideologije u institucionalnom diskursu”, in Suvremena lingvistika (in Serbo-Croatian), University of Zagreb, page 68