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Oct 4, 2023 · Idiolect. IDIOLECT is an individual language of a person, a set of semantic and stylistic features of speech and texts of an individual native speaker of a given language. This is an individual version of the national language (compare with dialects – massive territorial variants). The specificity of the idiolect is created by the selection ...
Nov 15, 2004 · Idiolects. An idiolect, if there is such a thing, is a language that can be characterised exhaustively in terms of intrinsic properties of some single person at a time, a person whose idiolect it is at that time. The force of ‘intrinsic’ is that the characterisation ought not to turn on features of the person's wider linguistic community.
idiolect: [noun] the language or speech pattern of one individual at a particular period of life.
Apr 3, 2011 · 3 Idiolects, Language and Conventions. The concept of idiolect can be interpreted in two different ways, which I call idiolect1 and idiolect2. Idiolect1 is the strong metaphysical account of the concept, i.e. two people cannot have the same idiolect and two idiolects cannot even present a non-trivial intersection.
For scholars who view language from the perspective of linguistic competence, essentially the knowledge of language and grammar that exists in the mind of an individual language user, the idiolect, is a way of referring to the specific knowledge. For scholars who regard language as a shared social practice, the idiolect is more like a dialect ...
In a series of corpus linguistic studies using Boolean and vector models, no conclusive evidence was found for the selected idiolect and sociolect hypotheses. In final analyses testing the semantics within each literary text, this lack of evidence was explained by the low homogeneity within a literary text. Key words: author identification ...
Oct 8, 2020 · More about idiolect. An individual person’s own pattern of speech is called an idiolect, formed from the Greek adjective ídios “private, one’s own, peculiar.” (The English noun idiot comes ultimately from Greek idiṓtēs “private person, a citizen who does not participate in public affairs,” a term of abuse and contempt in ...
