standard language

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === standard language (plural standard languages) (sociolinguistics) A form of a language that is institutionally promoted, regarded as the most correct or neutral variety, and is used by a population for public and formal purposes. Synonyms: standard, standard dialect, standard variety Antonym: nonstandard variety 2014, Stephan Elspaß, Prescriptive norms and norms of usage in nineteenth-century German, University of Salzburg [Gijsbert Rutten, Rik Vosters, Wim Vandenbussche, Norms and Usage in Language History, 1600–1900: A sociolinguistic and comparative perspective, John Benjamins Publishing Company] p. 303: In modern standard languages, norms of usage often seem to be superimposed by prescriptive norms. (sociolinguistics) A language that has a standard form as one of its varieties; a language that has undergone standardization. Synonym: standardized language ==== Translations ==== === See also === === References === Finegan, Edward (2007), Language: Its Structure and Use‎[1], Boston: Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 14 Coulmas, Florian (2017) An Introduction to Multilingualism: Language in a Changing World, Oxford University Press, p. 48, →ISBN === Further reading === standard language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia