Example sentences for: anti-language

How can you use “anti-language” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While slang is not itself anti-language, it exhibits some of its tendencies.

  • How it differs from anti-language is that while it often intends to subvert, it does so by being understood (at least in part) by the world at large.

  • Linguistically speaking, an anti-language is formed by a process of relexicalization, which is substituting new words for old.

  • Anti-language is divergence on a grand scale, and most varieties of slang are at least sympathetic to the philosophy and purposes of anti-language.

  • The board slang once used on Citizens' Band radio has similarities with anti-language, although even the police more often regarded CB users as eccentric nuisances than criminals.


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