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:

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

  • Considerably more is known about grypserka — the anti-language of Polish prisoners — than about any English-speaking system, but even that knowledge is incomplete and out-of-date.

  • Where the purpose of anti-language is to be secretive, slang is often offensive.

  • Cleaner is a word which adheres to the second principle of an anti-language: the word employed in the process of relexicalzation should not itself be conspicuous.

  • 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.


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