What is the difference between dialogue and dialect?
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A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals.
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In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters.
A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation.
(computing) A dialogue box.
(informal, business) To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
(obsolete) To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
(linguistics) A variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.
* A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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A dialect of a language perceived as substandard and wrong.
* 1967 , Roger W. Shuy, Discovering American dialects , National Council of Teachers of English, page 1:
* 1975 , Linguistic perspectives on black English , H. Carl, page 219:
* 1994 , H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the dark , Heinemann, page 11:
A language.
A variant of a non-standardized programming language.
Dialect is a related term of dialogue.
As nouns the difference between dialogue and dialect
is that dialogue is a conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals while dialect is a variety of a language (specifically, often a spoken variety) that is characteristic of a particular area, community or group, often with relatively minor differences in vocabulary, style, spelling and pronunciation.As a verb dialogue
is to discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.dialogue
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Alternative forms
* (US and computing) dialogNoun
(en noun)- Bill and Melinda maintained a dialogue via email over the course of their long-distance relationship.
- 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.
- The movie had great special effects, but the dialogue was lackluster.
- A literary historian, she specialized in the dialogues of ancient Greek philosophers.
- Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.
Antonyms
* introspection * monologue * multilogueDerived terms
( conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals) * dialogic * dialogical * dialogically * dialogism * dialogist * dialogistic * dialogistically * dialogize * modal dialogueVerb
(dialogu)- Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
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dialect
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(wikipedia dialect)Noun
(en noun)- And in addition, many dialects of English make no morphological distinction between Adjectives and Adverbs, and thus use Adjectives in contexts where the standard language requires -ly'' Adverbs: compare
(81) (a) Tex talks ''really quickly'' [Adverb + Adverb]
(b) %Tex talks ''real quick [Adjective + Adjective]
- Many even deny it and say something like this: "No, we don't speak a dialect around here.
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- Well, those children don't speak dialect , not in this school. Maybe in the public schools, but not here.
[...] on the second day, Miss Anderson gave the school a lecture on why it was wrong to speak dialect'. She had ended by saying "Respectable people don't speak ' dialect ."
- Home computers in the 1980s had many incompatible dialects of BASIC.