Dialect level

The dialect level describes the speaker's degree of dialect mastery . The dialect level is mainly used when the dialect is the only way for the speaker to express himself.

From the perspective of sociolinguistics , a high level of dialect correlates with difficult acquisition and command of the standard language (Ammon, 1972). Löffler is critical of this.

The term is therefore judgmental and denies the creative openness of every way of speaking. The respective way of speaking is thus classified as system-bound.

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• Helmut Glück (Ed.): Metzler Lexicon Language. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart et al. 2000, ISBN 3-476-01519-X .
• U. Ammon: Dialect, Social Inequality and School. 1972
• H. Löffler: Dialectology. 1980
• Peter Sieber, Horst Sitta: Dialect and standard language as a problem at school. Orientation Guide for Teachers, 1986

See also

• Dialect barrier
• Language ability
• Use of language