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‖ langue|lɑ̃g|
In 4 lange, 7 lang.
[Fr.]
†1. A tongue or language. Obs. rare.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 125 And þerfore for þe comonalte Þat blythely wild listen to me, On lighte lange I it began. 1388Wyclif Gen. xi. 1 The lond was of o langage [2 MSS. lange]. ― Esther i. 22 In dyuerse langagis [MS. C. langis] and lettris. c1665R. Carpenter Pragm. Jesuit Epil. 66 If your lang be scanty, Th' Italian Tongue welcoms you tuttie quanti.
2. = language n. 5 b.
1799Nelson in Nicolas Disp. (1845) III. 313 If it is in my power, you shall be elected a Chevalier of the Order. I find the Russian Langue has the privilege of admitting married men. 1802Naval Chron. VIII. 124 There shall be no English nor French Langues. 1888Ch. Times 13 July 613 There is no reason why each nation or langue should not maintain at Rome a sort of embassy, with its chapel at St. Peter's.
3. Linguistics. A language viewed as an abstract system, accepted universally within a speech-community, in contrast to the actual linguistic behaviour of individuals (opp. parole n.).
1924L. Bloomfield in Mod. Lang. Jrnl. VIII. 318 This rigid system, the subject-matter of ‘descriptive linguistics’, as we should say, is la langue, the language. 1947Word III. 16 Langue, tho described as a repository, is not to be thought of simply as a pile of words. 1953W. J. Entwistle Aspects of Lang. i. 26 One may..treat language (langue) as a generalization which becomes concrete and individual in speech (parole). 1957[see diachronistically adv. s.v. diachronism]. 1964Language XL. 214 Current theorizing about the acquisition and functioning of the speaker's langue. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 4 The distinction..is related to the langue-parole distinction of Saussure; but it is necessary to reject his concept of langue as merely a systematic inventory of items. 1968Word XXIV. 56 Accent, viewed dynamically, constitutes the parole which manifests the pattern or langue. |