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social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > cultural/social anthropology > folk speech
social science subjects > sociology > anthropology > anthropological linguistics > folk speech
social science subjects > linguistics > descriptive linguistics > anthropological linguistics > folk speech

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folk speech  

Definition

  • The designation folk speech is one of various terms that have been used to describe the language of ordinary people as used for routine purposes on the everyday level of face-to-face oral communication. Such variation refers to the pragmatic rather than to the grammatical aspect of language, that is, to the way language is used to communicate within the context of social interaction as revealed in different patterns of discourse, rather than to the internal structure of the linguistic code as seen, for example, in dialect variation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Speech, Folk]

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