linguistic variant

In sociolinguistics, a style is a set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings.

The less focused the community is, the less clear will be the relationship of specific linguistic variants to their various social functions.

Language game for a linguistic variant.

They speak a linguistic variant derived from Assamese and Bengali.

The discussion of Choctaw grammar below uses the linguistic variant of the orthography.

These social meanings are created by a continual analysis and interpretation of the linguistic variants that are observed based on who uses them.

Etymology and Linguistic variants

Labov's work primarily attempted to linked linguistic variants as a function of formality (a proxy for attention to speech) to specific social groups.

Modern (linguistic variant)

The choices made of internal linguistic variant forms are systematically constrained by a range of factors at both the linguistic and the social levels.

Rongmei tribes have their different and distinctive socio-cultural, traditional and linguistic variants and also genetic identity.

Language evolution, and the emergence of contact-induced varieties, can be regarded as speakers making selections from a pool of linguistic variants made available to them.

Other regional and linguistic variants in Spain include the Basque zartzuela and the Catalan sarsuela.

Hall's philosophy was a linguistic variant of naive realism according to which values as well as physical objects and properties are much as generally understood by common sense.

In such situations we typically do not know beforehand what all the linguistic variants involved actually are, so we must use very careful and accountable methods of selection and analysis.

In such conditions, one important prediction is that the weakening of norm-enforcement mechanisms will bring about a reduction in the everyday functional value of the use of in-group linguistic variants.

The FTS query processor breaks up the query into the constituent words, filters out the noise words, and uses an inbuilt thesaurus to find out the linguistic variants for each word.

The Mexican Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas (INALI) recognizes 10 distinct languages or "linguistic variants" in the family, 3 Tepehua and 7 Totonac :

These sections reveal the amazing breadth of his research and, incidentally, his infatuation with the local linguistic variants (essartage, landnam, Brandwirtschaft, huuhta, svedjebruk, and zalezh, just for starters) by which slash-and-burn agriculture is known.

It also became clear that choice of linguistic variant is often a situational choice made in relation to a specific speech context, than it is an expression of a permanent social identity, such as class, gender, or age.

William Burroughs wrote a linguistic variant: "the word for word is word", and also used the sentence "a rat is a rat is a rat is a rat" in his novel Naked Lunch.

All universities teaching Romance languages, and virtually all linguists, consider these two to be linguistic variants of the same language (similar to Canadian French versus Metropolitan French, and European versus Brazilian Portuguese).