Epilanguage

Quick meaning: Epilanguage is a noun meaning (linguistics) A second language used regularly for some purpose or purposes (such as for scholarship and scientific research).

Meaning

(linguistics) A second language used regularly for some purpose or purposes (such as for scholarship and scientific research).

More Meanings

1. (linguistics, education) A more subconscious, self-imposed, form of metalanguage, determining the form in which a message will be uttered.

Example Sentences

Critical expressions may therefore be statements or entrenched beliefs, or even paradigms, which belong to the epilanguage or background knowledge of sciences.

Gombert begins the volume by presenting evidence that in addition to explicit teaching of basic decoding skills, metalinguistic knowledge or epilanguage that children bring into reading is also important.

2013 Juraj Dolník, "Čeština ako necudzí jazyk v slovenskom prostredí" (Czech as a non-foreign language in the Slovak milieu), Studia Academica Slovaca 42, 2013:127-138. It is argued that the Czech is an epilanguage of the Slovaks, i.e. a concomitant phenomenon of their mother tongue.

2006 Pascale Hummel, "Epilanguages: Beyond Idioms and Languages," Call for Participation, 10 May 2006. Somewhere between archiphonemes/archisemes and metalanguages, which could be considered semi-synonyms, the "epilanguages" are the linguistic realities and results generated by the use of a second language for scholarly and scientific purposes.

Word Forms

• epilanguages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parole, lexifier, paralect, hyperlect, classroomese, exophora.

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