Related Term(s):

• Received Pronunication (RP)
• koine
• national language
• official language
• standardization

Synonym(s):

• common language
• standard dialect
• standard variety

Source(s):

CRYSTAL 2003431
WALES 1989429 (standard dialect)
HAMP 196366
COLLINGE 1990917
HOLMES 199282f.
FRANCIS 198310
HARTMANN & STORK 1972218 (= standard speech)
GUMPERZ & HYMES 197211
RICHARDS etal. 1992351 (= standard (n.))
HUDSON 199632
TRUDGILL 1974149
ELL4340-4342

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• WALES, Katie. (1989) A Dictionary of Stylistics. London: Longman. 
• HAMP, Eric P. (1963) A Glossary of American Technical Linguistic Usage 1925-1950. Utrecht: Spectrum Publishers. 
• COLLINGE, N. E. (1990) An Encyclopaedia of Language. London: Routledge.
• HOLMES, Janet. (1992) An Introduction to Sociolinguistics. New York: Longman.
• FRANCIS, W.N. (1983) Dialectology: An Introduction. London: Longman.
• HARTMANN, R.R.K. & STORK, F.C. (1972) Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. London: Applied Science Publishers.
• GUMPERZ, John J. and HYMES, Dell (eds.). (1972) Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication. New York: Holt, Reinhart & Winston.
• RICHARDS, Jack, PLATT,  J. & WEBER,  H.  (1992) Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching & Applied Linguistics. London: Longman.
• HUDSON, R.A. (1996) Sociolinguistics, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: University Press.
• TRUDGILL, Peter. (1974) Sociolinguistics: An Introduction. London: Penguin Books.
• The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Domain:

Sociolinguistics