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Record 1 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
OBS

--using speech sounds or forms often labeled vulgar or incorrect; conforming to the pattern of linguistic usage of the community but not of the prestige group [Q 5662]

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie
OBS

[l'adjectif populaire ] caractérise tout trait [ linguistique exclu de l'usage des couches cultivées [qui n'est ni] grossier, [ni] trivial.

Spanish

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