NON-STANDARD SPEECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does non-standard speech mean? 

• NON-STANDARD SPEECH (noun)
  The noun NON-STANDARD SPEECH has 1 sense:

1. speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community

  Familiarity information: NON-STANDARD SPEECH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NON-STANDARD SPEECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("non-standard speech" is a kind of...):

language; oral communication; speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; voice communication ((language) communication by word of mouth)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "non-standard speech"):

baby talk; babytalk (the developing speech of a young child)

baby talk; babytalk; motherese (an adult's imitation of the speech of a young child)

accent; dialect; idiom (the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people)

localism (a phrase or pronunciation that is peculiar to a particular locality)

regionalism (a feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region)

telegraphese (language characterized by terseness and ellipsis as in telegrams)

vernacular (the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language))

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

slang; slang expression; slang term (informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar)