Sentence examples for prestigious forms from inspiring English sources
And the imitation of socially prestigious forms is definitely one way accents change.
Throughout the novel, Kieron's mother and other authority figures try to make him forsake the marked Scots features of his language and use more socially prestigious forms.
The same phenomenon, the replacement of nonstandard or less prestigious forms with forms borrowed from the standard language or dialect, has taken place in many different places at many different times.
For the socially deprived, the use of street slang and ungrammatical codes could undermine their ability to manage the prestigious forms of language required in exams or job interviews.
He has played for India in all three formats of the game and has been impressive in five-day test matches, the most prestigious form.
What is not in doubt is Ganguly's contention that "tough decisions and honest ones" will be needed to pull cricket's largest and richest nation out of its tailspin in the most prestigious form of the game.
Not, that is, until this week, when a huge 319-run victory over India at Nottingham made it provisional No. 1 — displacing India — in the official rankings for five-day tests, the oldest and most prestigious form of the game.
While most players and fans continue to regard test cricket as the most prestigious form of the game, it is now possible to have a good, and highly lucrative, life as a cricketer without playing the longest format.
In that short span of time, he has firmly established himself on the team not only in the longest and most prestigious form of the game, but also in one-day internationals and Twenty20.
Since the death of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in 2008, it would be hard to argue for a poet of greater stature in a literary culture where poetry is the most prestigious form as well as being popular.
These painting and decoration patterns are recognized as golden-dragon Hexi painting (金龙和玺彩画, see Fig. 1a), the most prestigious form of Hexi painting.
