单词 | role-distance |
释义 | > as lemmasrole-distance role-distance v. intransitive to detach oneself from one's expected or characteristic role. ΚΠ 1972 M. L. Samuels Linguistic Evol. vii. 146 R. B. Le Page suggests to me that in England there would be good reasons for the aristocracy of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries to adopt affected forms of speech as a means of ‘role-distancing’ from the lower classes, from whom they had hitherto been differentiated by speaking French. < as lemmas |
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