standard language
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- noun
- /ˈstændərd ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒ/
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lenguaje estándar
- The teacher emphasized that students should always use standard language in their essays to meet grading criteria.
- establish a standard language
Examples
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We will add it to the press release, honor a patriot, and so forth; you know the standard language.
Fiction book (1991) -
If there wasn't a standard language that we both spoke, then we couldn't communicate, right?
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It's called Signed Exact English, but it is not the standard language used by the deaf.
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The Court once again recited the standard language.
Academic text (2017) -
One of the first needs in compiling ecosystem service data is to establish a standard language and approach to measurement and observation.
Academic text (2012) -
The Uniform Guidance supersedes earlier OMB circulars and aims to remove conflicting guidance and establish standard language.
Academic text (2017) -
Yet the various distinctions implied in the names Czech and Moravian, all of which were clearly expressed in the immigrants' native speech, have now largely faded from consciousness as English has become the standard language of communication.
Academic text (1996) -
Unfortunately, the influence of grammarians and teachers ever since the eighteenth century has been almost exclusively on the side of restraint and fixation, with a consequent ever-widening breach between the "standard" language and the organic growth of English itself.
Academic text (1995) -
In academic writing, it is crucial to use standard language to convey ideas clearly and formally.
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The document was revised to ensure it adhered to the standard language guidelines set by the institution.
How Standard
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'standard' (an accepted norm) combined with 'language' (a speech/writing system) straightforwardly yields 'the variety of a language accepted as the norm'. This noun+noun combination is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary semantic composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase standard language comes from the idea of a standard as a fixed rule or measure that everyone follows and language as the way people speak or write. So standard language is the form of speech people accept as 'correct' or 'official' in schools, news, and official places.