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basilect

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bas·i·lect  (bs-lkt)
n.
The variety of speech that is most remote from the prestige variety, especially in an area where a creole is spoken. For example, in Jamaica, Jamaican Creole is the basilect whereas Standard Jamaican English is the acrolect or prestige language.



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From the perspective of the acquisition of academic writing in Standard English, the mixing of these varieties due to the bidirectional shifting between Creole English (the basilect and the mesolect) and Standard English (the acrolect) can create a blurring of distinctness on the part of the Creole-English speaker as to what linguistic system belongs to Creole English on one hand, and what constitutes the linguistic system of Standard English on the other.
The introductory chapter contains a brief presentation of useful but very often problematic terminology to be used in the book (language, dialect, acrolect, basilect, mesolect, creole, etc.
Solibo used the four facets of our diglossia," he writes: "the Creole basilect and acrolect, the French basilect and acrolect, quivering, vibrating, rooted in an interlectal space that I thought to be our more exact socio-linguistic reality.
 
 
 
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