An idiolect is the dialect of an individual person at one time.
Rennison's Tallulah is back, with her strange idiolect, at her performing arts school in Yorkshire, and working her way painfully and humorously through adolescence.
It takes the source material, a book that gently subverts and teases the earnest conventions of the Western genre, and tweaks up its subversive tactics; but it also honours the unique idiolect of the original, finding in it a language with which the makers can play merry hell.
The way a person talks is called his or her idiolect.
He created an idiolect that had no model.
Beaton's notations of her idiolect and accent (" 'Valuable' became 'vuargh-luobbhle' ") are more convincing than his judgments of her character, which are based on shared activities in which Beaton seems more chivalric or sisterly than truly ardent.
That return to home — whether instinctive or didactic — seems to have been shared by a preponderance of the writers, not necessarily as a retreat into provinciality but as an uncovering of vernacular riches found in unlikely places: a salutary identity politics of the idiolect.
He knew his vicious antihero, Alex, would narrate, and that he would do so in an argot or idiolect the world had never heard before (he eventually settled on a blend of Russian, Romany and rhyming slang).
1.05pm: As for idiolect posts, @poshknacker explains: "Tis how we spake here on my island when the tourist layve ta go home.
But then, Glen and Jean are nothing if not strange, so perhaps that extends to their domestic idiolect.
As it passed its narrative from voice to voice in an unforced democracy of idiolect it shattered expectations of what literature was and who its heroes or owners were.
