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diastratic

diastratic adjective: concerned with or relating to the ways in which language varies across social, cultural or educational factors.

Adjective

diastratic (not comparable)

  1. Concerned with or relating to the ways in which language varies across social, cultural or educational factors.
    • a diastratic usage label
    • According to Hausmann (1977, Ch. 8), lexically relevant units can receive — typically by means of labels or usage notes — any or all of the following types of diasystematic marking: diachronic (e.g. archaic, neologism); diatopic (e.g. American English for elevator 'lift', British English for loo)...1991, “Lexicography”, in Kirsten Malmkjær, editor, The Linguistics Encyclopedia, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 295, column 2

Origin of diastratic

From dia- + stratic.

Questions about diastratic

What does diastratic mean?
Diastratic means concerned with or relating to the ways in which language varies across social, cultural or educational factors.
What part of speech is diastratic?
Diastratic is an adjective.

Words near diastratic in the dictionary

  1. diastolics
  2. diastology
  3. diastomatomyelia
  4. diastomyelia
  5. diastral
  6. diastratic
  7. diastrophic
  8. diastrophically
  9. diastrophism
  10. diastrophisms
  11. diastyle

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