Usus
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Usus (Latin: usus — usage; long-established rule, practice, custom) is the common usage of linguistic units (words, idioms, forms) in a particular speech community.[1][2][3] It may be used as one of the criteria of laying out prescriptive norms for standard language usage.[4]
Usus can be contrasted with both low-frequency usage and codified standard usage. The term is used to designate usage that has widespread or significant acceptance among speakers of a language, regardless of its conformity to the sanctioned standard language norms.[1]
Usus was a crucial term in the research of Danish linguists Otto Jespersen and Louis Hjelmslev.[5]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Markowski (2005), p. 21
- ^ Nebeská (2017)
- ^ Olinkiewicz, Elżbieta; Radzymińska, Katarzyna; Styś, Halina (1999). Słownik Encyklopedyczny - Język polski (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Europa. ISBN 83-87977-20-9.
- ^ Korpysz, Tomasz (2017-01-29). "Uwaga na uzus". Porady (in Polish). Idziemy. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
- ^ Dace Strelēvica-Ošiņa (2019), "The Language of Correctness: Some Terms of Latin Origin", Antiquitas Viva, 5: 191, doi:10.22364/av5.16, ISSN 2255-9779
References[edit]
- Nebeská, Iva (2017). "ÚZUS". In Karlík, Petr; Nekula, Marek; Pleskalová, Jana (eds.). Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny (in Czech).
- Markowski, Andrzej (2005). Kultura języka polskiego. Teoria. Zagadnienia leksykalne (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. ISBN 83-01-14526-9.