Sentence examples for an idiolect from inspiring English sources

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He created an idiolect that had no model.

Notice that opposition to normativity and prescriptivism is not built into the very notion of an idiolect.

But however we interpret the notion of realization, a social language is a language (or some part or aspect of a language) individuated by reference to a plurality whereas an idiolect is a language (or some part, etc).

Although the properties of x's idiolect are tied stipulatively to intrinsic properties of x, this does not mean that two distinct individuals could not share an idiolect in principle, or have significantly overlapping idiolects in practice.

Chomsky and Davidson have different understandings of what it is for a single person to realize an idiolect, though how far these different emphases reflect distinct but compatible agendas rather than fundamentally competing visions is not immediately clear.

Others have claimed that the notion of an idiolect is incompatible with an intuition that ought to be respected: we can be wrong in what we take a word to mean (see Dummett 1983 , 1991 ch. 4; George 1990; Wiggins 1997; and once again, see also the entry on the normativity of meaning and content).

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Some chapters are even narrated by a pigeon (named Ravenscourt, after his suburb of origin) who speaks in a catchy idiolect reminiscent of the droogs in "A Clockwork Orange".

They are the people you want to drink with, the people you've got your in jokes with, the people with whom your banter has become a shared idiolect, people with whom the word banter becomes an acceptability because, truthfully, there's no other word for it.

They are the people you want to drink with, the people you've got your in jokes with, the people with whom your banter has become a shared idiolect, people with whom the word banter becomes an acceptability because truthfully, there's no other word for it.

Someone taking an idiolectal perspective on language regards idiolects (in something like the first sense above) as having ontological and/or investigative priority over social languages, which are conceived of as more or less overlapping idiolects.

Bernard has a stranger idiolect, distinguished by sentences stripped of verbs or pronouns, reduced to fury.

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