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Meaning of "grapholect" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF GRAPHOLECT

grapholect  [ˈɡræfəˌlekt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GRAPHOLECT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Grapholect is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES GRAPHOLECT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of grapholect in the English dictionary

The definition of grapholect in the dictionary is an established and standardised written language.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH GRAPHOLECT


arrect
æˈrekt
basilect
ˈbeɪsɪˌlekt
cathect
kəˈθekt
coerect
ˌkəʊɪˈrekt
conject
kənˈdʒekt
crew-necked
ˈkruːˌnekt
flecked
flekt
humect
hjuːˈmekt
lanzknecht
ˈlænzkəˌnekt
miscorrect
ˌmɪskəˈrekt
predilect
ˌpriːdɪˈlekt
preelect
ˌpriːɪˈlekt
refect
rɪˈfekt
reinject
ˌriːɪnˈdʒekt
subdialect
ˈsʌbˌdaɪəlekt
suberect
ˌsʌbɪˈrekt
subsect
ˈsʌbˌsekt
superinfect
ˌsuːpərɪnˈfekt
tranect
ˈtrænekt
unsuspect
ʌnˈsʌspekt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GRAPHOLECT

graphics
graphics adapter
graphics card
graphite
graphitic
graphitisable
graphitisation
graphitise
graphitizable
graphitization
graphitize
graphitoid
graphium
graphologic
graphological
graphologist
graphology
graphomania
graphomotor
graphophobia

WORDS THAT END LIKE GRAPHOLECT

acrolect
collect
complect
deflect
deselect
dialect
elect
free-select
idiolect
inflect
intellect
neglect
pre-select
president-elect
re-elect
recollect
reflect
reselect
select
sociolect

Synonyms and antonyms of grapholect in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «grapholect» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GRAPHOLECT

Find out the translation of grapholect to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of grapholect from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «grapholect» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

grapholect
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

grafolecto
570 millions of speakers

English

grapholect
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

grapholect
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

grapholect
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

grapholect
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

grapholect
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

grapholect
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

grapholect
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Grapholect
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

grapholect
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

grapholect
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

grapholect
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Grapholect
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

grapholect
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

grapholect
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आलेखलक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

grapholect
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

grapholect
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grapholect
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

grapholect
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

grapholect
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

grapholect
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

grapholect
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

grapholect
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

grapholect
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of grapholect

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAPHOLECT»

The term «grapholect» is barely ever used and occupies the 200.734 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of grapholect
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «grapholect».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «GRAPHOLECT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «grapholect» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «grapholect» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about grapholect

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GRAPHOLECT»

Discover the use of grapholect in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to grapholect and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Book History Reader
Tliis kind of established written language Haugen (1966: 50-71) has aptly styled a 'grapholect'. A modern grapholect such as 'English' , to use the simple term which is commonly used to refer to this grapholect, has been worked over for ...
David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery, 2002
2
Academic Discourse and Critical Consciousness
While the grapholect becomes the grapholect by virtue of the political dominance of the group that used it when it was just a dialect, Hirsch asserts that universal schooling in that dialect fixes its form and makes it transdialectal. The English ...
Patricia Bizzell
3
"Speaking of Dialect": Translating Charles W. Chesnutt's ...
Bakhtin's differentiation between "authoritative discourse" and "internally persuasive discourse" can be employed to understand the difference between the act of writing a standard grapholect and the act of writing a literary dialect.
Erik Redling, 2006
4
Orality and Literacy: 30th Anniversary Edition
other dialects of English as well as thousands of foreign languages are interpreted in the grapholect. In this sense, the grapholect includes all the other dialects: it explains them as they cannot explain themselves. The grapholect bears the ...
Walter J. Ong, 2013
5
Worlds Apart: Narratology of Science Fiction
In this respect, it is also useful to borrow from Eric Rabkin the term grapholect to designate a writing practice whose discourse is diacritically marked by the imprint of a specific historical, sociological, and cultural matrix. "Grapholects," according  ...
Carl Darryl Malmgren, 1991
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The Locations of Composition
Strictly speaking, the term grapholect refers to the written form of a spoken language, yet a grapholect differs from a dialect in exactly the ways that make dialects distinct from each other — a grapholect is a representation of abstraction in ...
Christopher J. Keller, Christian R. Weisser, 2007
7
Literacy and Language Analysis
Hirsch (best known for his Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—see Hirsch, 1989, for some lively discussion about this work—and himself essentially a teacher of composition) has proposed the term grapholect to denote  ...
Robert J. Scholes, 2013
8
The Linguistics of Literacy
(12) Writing differentiates grapholects, those "low"-language dialects which are taken over by writing and erected into national languages, from other dialects, making the grapholect a dialect of a completely different order of magnitude and  ...
Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima, Michael Noonan, 1992
9
Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan ...
Elbow's position is based on the assumption that “Literacy as a culture or institution almost always implies just one dialect as the only proper one for writing : the 'grapholect'” (Elbow, 2002, p. 128). Unlike speech that can accommodate diverse ...
A. Suresh Canagarajah, 2013
10
Sourcebook on English Legal System
Written legal language may be considered a particular register of the 'grapholect': it shares the grammar of the 'standard' form of the language and is capable of utilising any part of its lexicon—a lexicon far more extensive than that normally ...
David Kelly, Gary Slapper, 2012

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GRAPHOLECT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term grapholect is used in the context of the following news items.
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Write it like you'd say it
... dashtard (the combination of a comma and a dash, advocated by Nicholson Baker) and grapholect (a word for the “dialect” of written English, ... «Boston Globe, Mar 12»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Grapholect [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/grapholect>. Apr 2024 ».
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