| 释义 |
‖ Umgangssprache|ˈʊmgaŋsʃpraːxə|
[Ger., = colloquial speech.]
The vernacular language between standard and dialect speech customarily used as a means of communication within a linguistic community.
1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. viii. 350 The schools..are playing a considerable part in removing the Umgangssprache..from local influences by basing the language of instruction more strictly upon the literary language. 1961R. E. Keller German Dialects i. 8 Wherever the ideal of the standard has led to the abandonment of the native dialect a third form arises between the two: the Umgangssprache. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 215 We assume that the Swiss immigrants on their arrival in Wisconsin used Swiss German as their ‘Umgangssprache’ and had at least some knowledge of standard German. |