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DIGLOSSIE [2 records]

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Record 1 1993-10-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cartography

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cartographie

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psycho-, Socio- and Ethnolinguistics
DEF

The presence in a language of two standards, a 'high' language used for formal occasions and in written texts, and a 'low' language used in colloquial conversation, e.g., in Swiss German, Greek, Arabic, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psycho-, socio- et ethnolinguistique
CONT

Dans la littérature socio-linguistique américaine, bilinguisme est opposé à diglossie: le premier terme désigne l'usage indistinct de l'une ou l'autre langue et le passage de l'une à l'autre quels que soient les circonstances et les thèmes abordés, le deuxième la répartition des usages dans chacune des langues selon des circonstances et des thèmes particuliers.

OBS

Le terme de diglossie est parfois employé peu rigoureusement comme synonyme de bilinguisme.

Spanish

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