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  2. Mutual intelligibility - Wikipedia

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    Mutual intelligibility is sometimes used to distinguish languages from dialects, although sociolinguistic factors are often also used. Intelligibility between varieties can be asymmetric; that is, speakers of one variety may be able to better understand another than vice versa. An example of this is the case between Afrikaans and Dutch. It is ...

  3. Intelligibility - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Intelligibility may refer to: Mutual intelligibility, in linguistics; Intelligibility (communication ...

  4. Dialect - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, a Sicilian-speaking person would have a greater degree of mutual intelligibility with a speaker of the more closely related Neapolitan language, but far less mutual intelligibility with a person speaking Sicilian Gallo-Italic, a language that developed in isolated Lombard emigrant communities on the same island as the Sicilian language.

  5. Lexical similarity - Wikipedia

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    The variations due to differing wordlists weigh on this. For example, lexical similarity between French and English is considerable in lexical fields relating to culture, whereas their similarity is smaller as far as basic (function) words are concerned. Unlike mutual intelligibility, lexical similarity can only be symmetrical.

  6. Psychological fiction - Wikipedia

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    Psychological thriller, psychological horror, psychological drama, psychological science fiction In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism ) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters .

  7. Definitions of science fiction - Wikipedia

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    "A science fiction story is a story built around human beings, with a human problem, and a human solution, which would not have happened at all without its scientific content." [13] Basil Davenport. 1955. "Science fiction is fiction based upon some imagined development of science, or upon the extrapolation of a tendency in society." [14] Edmund ...

  8. Sociolinguistics - Wikipedia

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    Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the interaction between society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context and language and the ways it is used. It can overlap with the sociology of language, which focuses on the effect of language on society.

  9. Mutual intelligibilty - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Mutual intelligibilty