different between dialogue vs dialect

English

Alternative forms

• (US): dialog

Etymology

From Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from ??? (diá, “through, inter”) + ????? (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “to converse”), from ??? (diá) + ?????? (légein, “to speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?da??l??/
• (US)

Noun

dialogue (countable and uncountable, plural dialogues)

1. A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
   • 2013, Paul Harris, Lance Armstrong faces multi-million dollar legal challenges after confession (in The Guardian, 19 January 2013)[1]

     The hours of dialogue with Winfrey, which culminated in a choked-up moment on Friday night as he discussed the impact of his cheating on his family, appear to have failed to give Armstrong the redemption that he craves.

2. (authorship) In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
3. (philosophy) A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.

4. (computing) A dialogue box.

See also

• introspection
• monologue
• trialogue
• quadralogue
• multilogue

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• dialect
• dialectic

Translations

References

• Dialogue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dialogue (third-person singular simple present dialogues, present participle dialoguing, simple past and past participle dialogued)

1. (informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.

2. (transitive) To put into dialogue form.
3. (obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from ??? (diá, “through, inter”) + ????? (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “to converse”), from ??? (diá) + ?????? (légein, “to speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dja.l??/

Noun

dialogue m (plural dialogues)

1. dialogue

Derived terms

• dialogue de sourds

Verb

dialogue

1. inflection of dialoguer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Descendants

• ? Turkish: diyalog

Further reading

• “dialogue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Verb

dialogue

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dialogar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dialogar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dialogar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of dialogar.

English

Etymology

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from ??? (diá, “inter, through”) + ???? (lég?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?.??l?kt/

Noun

dialect (plural dialects)

1. (linguistics) A variety of a language that is characteristic of a particular area, community, or social group, differing from other varieties of the same language in relatively minor ways as regards grammar, phonology, and lexicon.

   Hyponyms: sociolect, ethnolect, regiolect, geolect
2. (derogatory) Language that is perceived as substandard or wrong.
3. (colloquial) A language existing only in an oral or non-standardized form, especially a language spoken in a developing country or an isolated region.

   Synonym: vernacular

4. (colloquial) A lect (often a regional or minority language) as part of a group or family of languages, especially if they are viewed as a single language, or if contrasted with a standardized idiom that is considered the 'true' form of the language (for example, Cantonese as contrasted with Mandarin Chinese, or Bavarian as contrasted with Standard German).

   Synonyms: vernacular, (often derogatory) patois

5. (computing, programming) A variant of a non-standardized programming language.

6. (ornithology) A variant form of the vocalizations of a bird species restricted to a certain area or population.

Usage notes

• In some linguistic traditions, the term "dialect" is restricted to nonstandard lects. In scholarly English usage, it refers to both standardized and vernacular forms of language.
• The difference between a language and a dialect is not always clear, and often has more to do with political boundaries than with linguistic differences. It is generally considered that people who speak different dialects of the same language can understand each other, while people who speak different languages cannot, however, in some cases, people who speak different dialects of the same language are mutually unintelligible. Compare species in the biological sense.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Meronyms

• idiolect

See also

• dialogue

References

Further reading

• "dialect" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 105.
• Crystal, David (2008) , “dialect”, in A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6 edition, Blackwell Publishing, ?ISBN
• Fodde Melis, Luisanna; (2002) Race, Ethnicity and Dialects: Language Policy and Ethnic Minorities in the United States, FrancoAngeli, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• citadel, dactile, deltaic, edictal, lactide

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle French dialecte, from Latin dialectos, dialectus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (diálektos, “conversation, the language of a country or a place or a nation, the local idiom which derives from a dominant language”), from ?????????? (dialégomai, “I participate in a dialogue”), from ??? (diá, “inter, through”) + ???? (lég?, “I speak”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dija??l?kt/
• Hyphenation: di?a?lect
• Rhymes: -?kt

Noun

dialect n (plural dialecten, diminutive dialectje n)

1. (linguistics) dialect (language variety)
2. non-standard dialect; vernacular

   Synonyms: streektaal, mondaard

Derived terms

• dialectgroep

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dialek
• ? Indonesian: dialek

Anagrams

• citadel

Romanian

Etymology

From French dialecte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /di.a?lekt/

Noun

dialect n (plural dialecte)

1. (linguistics) language socially subordinate to a regional or national standard language, often historically cognate to the standard, but not a variety of it or in any other sense derived from it
2. (colloquial) dialect

Declension

Derived terms

• subdialect

See also

• idiom, grai, limbaj, limb?