Admin Post: Word of the Day .... Diglossia noun the widespread existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language each used in different social contexts or for performing different functions, as the existence of Katharevusa and Demotic in modern Greece. Pathology. the presence of two tongues or of a single tongue divided into two parts by a cleft. Arabic took over many of the functions of Aramaic as the language of scholarship, and, as one vernacular replaced another, the original state of diglossia was restored. -- David Biale , Cultures of the the Jews: A New History , 2002 Sociolinguistic studies indicate that diglossia and code-switching are very pertinent characteristics of the linguistic repertoires of a large portion of the population… -- Christa Van der Walt , Living Through Languages: An African Tribute to René Dirven , 2006
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:21:48 +0000
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