-
depending on a speaker's status.
William Stewart, in 1965,
proposed the
terms acrolect, the
highest or most
prestigious variety on the continuum, and basilect...
- system. It can be
spoken as a pidgin, a creole,
dialect or a
decreolised acrolect by
different speakers, who may
switch between these forms depending on...
- "
acrolect".
These terms describe varieties of a
given language on a
spectrum of
similarity to the
colonial version of that language: the "
acrolect" being...
-
Malaysian English may be
categorised into
three levels: the
acrolect,
mesolect and basilect. The
acrolect is used by
those with near-native
level of proficiency...
-
forms serve as the "basilect" and the most RP-like
forms serve as the "
acrolect", the most
formal register. Most
Caribbean varieties are
based on British...
-
called the basilect;
Standard English (or high prestige) variety, the
acrolect; and in-between
versions are
known as mesolects. Consider, for example...
- high
classes of
cities or as used in
literature and
formal settings (the "
acrolect").
Sociolinguistics is the
discipline that
studies the
relationship between...
- each other.
Additional terms such as diatype, genre, text types, style,
acrolect, mesolect, basilect, sociolect, and ethnolect,
among many others, may be...
- continuum): the
variety of the
language closest to the
lexifier language (the
acrolect)
cannot be
distinguished systematically from
intermediate varieties (collectively...
- few loanwords.[citation needed] In some cases, a
language develops an
acrolect that
contains elements of a more
prestigious language. For example, in...
