norm of language

Literate societies have a strong tendency to take writing as the norm of language.

We used this in conjunction with the other variables to assist in exploring internal community norms of language.

Similarly, the standard can be regarded as the ultimate in the development of a supra-local norm of language.

Not only does it throw out the concept of good English, but it establishes the norms of language on what's said.

Where Gumperz formulation was designed to incorporate heterogeneity, by focusing on shared norms of language use rather than a shared linguistic system, Chomsky's definition explicitly rejected it.

Even though language change is often initially evaluated negatively by speakers of the language who often consider changes to be "decay" or a sign of slipping norms of language usage, it is natural and inevitable.

The discussion so far has focused on the sociolinguistics of dialect-divergence and the methods that can be used in order to establish in-group norms of language use that are not previously part of the knowledge of the investigator.