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Jul 3, 2019 · The concept of idiolect refers to a very specific phenomenon—the speech variety, or linguistic system, used by a particular individual. All those idiolects that have enough in common to appear at least superficially alike belong to a dialect. The term dialect, then, is an abstraction. (Westview, 2003)
- Richard Nordquist
Idiolect is an individual's unique use of language, including speech. This unique usage encompasses vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation. This differs from a dialect, a common set of linguistic characteristics shared among a group of people. The term is etymologically related to the Greek prefix idio- (meaning "own, personal, private ...
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Nov 15, 2004 · 1. Language Ontology 1.1 Idiolects versus Social Languages. Key to the distinction between an idiolect and a social language is the fact that the same natural language, L, can be picked out in either of two ways: L as the language with specified linguistic (semantic, syntactic, phonological, etc.) properties, or L as the language possessed (spoken, etc.) by a specific individual or population.
Nov 29, 2018 · Introduction. “Idiolect” refers to an individual’s unique variety and/or use of language, from the level of the phoneme to the level of discourse. This meaning is reflected in the etymology of the word: the two morphemes idio - and - lect. Idio - is of Greek origin, and means “own, personal, private, peculiar, separate and distinct ...
over whether idiolect resides in the overall linguistic system of an individual or in their patterns of usage, or whether the individual plays a role in language change. In some fields, the advent of large collections of texts has facilitated a testing of the theory of idiolect. Nevertheless, the
the general theory of communication—the theory of language-use—can operate with the notion of an idiolect or instead needs the notion of a common language. The second claim—that successful communication requires only E-langauges to be shared—is, I think, extremely tempting, languages, and perhaps such a study should operate not with ...
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.
