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idiolect [ˈɪdɪəˌlɛkt] n (Linguistics) the variety or form of a language used by an individual idiolectal , idiolectic adj idiolect a person’s individual speech habits. See also: Linguistics
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idio- language linguistics oral communication speech speech communication spoken communication spoken language voice communication | Apparently, the Coens' "secret shit'--with which, we presume, they have painted, in Freudian anal-stage fashion, their auteur signatures all over their twelve films (I mean this as a compliment)--is so secret, so idiolectic, so arcane that many critics find their movies as empty as Billy Bob's bag. But I took them for answers which would have made Big Maxie's appeal to emotion an idiolectic quirk -- an unusual and wholly personal habit of speech In those early days of learning, it seemed that Big Maxie was the only person I knew who would attribute hurt feeling(s) to people of the Darwin fringe camp that served me as my base. The association of "names" with "sacred pages," which appears elsewhere in Kovner's corpus and is therefore idiolectic, refers to the term "Shemoth," a Jewish folk-expression denoting the torn and worn-out pages of Holy Books which are not to be discarded but preserved in each synagogue's geniza. |
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