释义 |
deviancede‧vi‧ance /ˈdiːviəns/ (also de‧vi‧an‧cy /ˈdiːviənsi/) noun [uncountable] - As in other forms of enforcement, deviance which has taken place once is assumed capable of repetition.
- Examples have been widely attested of learners who exhibit correct performance on certain forms, and then lapse into deviance later on.
- On the other hand, the gallery of types of male deviance is far more richly furnished.
- Prompted largely by developments in psychiatry, a change occurred in the very definition of deviance.
- The question stylistics must consider is: how are these three concepts of deviance, prominence, and foregrounding interrelated?
- We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance.
- We saw too the marked trend to disavow deviance amongst the women whose personal histories are discussed in Chapter 2.
when something is different, especially in a bad way, from what is considered normal: sexual deviance |