- acrolect, the
highest or most
prestigious variety on the continuum, and
basilect, the
lowest or
least prestigious variety, as
sociolinguistic labels for...
-
English may be
categorised into
three levels: the acrolect,
mesolect and
basilect. The
acrolect is used by
those with near-native
level of
proficiency in...
- of
language registers in
which the most creole-like
forms serve as the "
basilect" and the most RP-like
forms serve as the "acrolect", the most
formal register...
-
speech continuum. The
least prestigious (most Creole)
variety is
called the
basilect;
Standard English (or high prestige) variety, the acrolect; and in-between...
-
prestigious "acrolect" and a more middle-ranging,
mainstream "mesolect". The "
basilect"
variety is less
similar to the
colonial language (natively-spoken English)...
-
mesolect registers,
between the most
basilect to the
acrolect (Mid-Atlantic) varieties. The acrolect, much like the
basilect, is
rarely heard. A 1987 travel...
-
interchangeably with Asturleonese) was once
regarded as an
informal dialect (
basilect) that
developed from
Castilian Spanish, but in 1906, Ramón Menéndez Pidal...
- to
upper classes, respectively, the
former being a somewhat-stigmatized
basilect. See the
Sample section for an IPA
transcribed text in a lower-class form...
- sociolects; Acrolect, Mesolect, and
Basilect. Both
Acrolect and
Mesolect are
regarded as
Standard Singapore English,
while Basilect is
considered as Singlish....
- from the most
divergent rural varieties (collectively
referred to as the
basilect). This
situation came
about with
contact between speakers of a
number of...
