What's the difference between dialect and patois?

Dialect


Definition:

  • (n.) Means or mode of expressing thoughts; language; tongue; form of speech.
  • (n.) The form of speech of a limited region or people, as distinguished from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Historical reality suggests the concept of socially necessary risk determined through the dialectic process in democracy.
  • (2) This is contrasted with the dialectical materialist concept of psychic phenomena as the highest integration level of man's relationship to the environment.
  • (3) This study investigated whether Nonstandard English (NSE) dialect responses to an examiner-constructed sentence completion test were congruent with and predictive of use of NSE during spontaneous conversation.
  • (4) We conclude that no major dialect differences exist in peptic ulcer frequency amongst the Chinese in Singapore.
  • (5) The hypothesis is advanced that both phenomena represent inborn dialectical logical instruments of evolution-like human identity creation and maintenance.
  • (6) Discussion of a revised model of Erikson's eight stages of psychosocial development illustrates the importance of formulating a dialectical developmental model that describes the interaction between attachment and separation and between product and process.
  • (7) Strong individual differences and learned local dialects are common.
  • (8) The Freudian conception of the process by which the subject is constituted is fundamentally dialectical in nature and involves the notion that the subject is created and sustained (and at the same time decentred from itself) through the dialectical interplay of consciousness and unconsciousness.
  • (9) This dialectic is defined as the synthesis of the antithetical strategies of Dealing With It and Keeping It in Its Place in which people are able to transcend each strategy and sustain hope.
  • (10) Chinese New Year is a public holiday and in Glodok, Mandarin and other dialects are spoken openly.
  • (11) For example such problems are discussed: the dialectic association of activity and inactivity of needing care old age people, the relation between energy and personality of old age people, change of relations between doctor-nurse-citizen or the higher responsibility of the doctor of the houses for old age people in connection with so-called "Triage".
  • (12) A dialectical model is proposed in which BSG utilization rates are seen as the product of an avoidance-avoidance conflict involving the choice between suffering emotional distress on one's own or the perceived stigma of joining a BSG.
  • (13) There were still quite a few Marxists at Oxford in those days – Terry Eagleton and his clique were seemingly bolted to the same table in the King’s Arms the entire time I  was an undergraduate – but while I was silly and naive enough to believe in the purifying, energising effects of violent revolution, I wasn’t obtuse enough to think of dialectical materialism as anything more than a powerful heuristic.
  • (14) A cult of healing through meditation that was observed in Bangkok, Thailand in 1974 is described, and the cult is interpreted in terms of two axes, the cosmological and the performative, and the dialectical, reciprocal and complementary relations between them.
  • (15) Starting from these statements, the author considers the hereditary and the environmental factors as a dialectical unit, associates the implications of both groups of factors with typical forms of dysgnathias and draws conclusions as to the prognosis of "mainly genetically" and "mainly environmentally" induced dental and occlusal malpositions.
  • (16) Cantonese is the common Chinese dialect spoken by the citizens in Hong Kong.
  • (17) The name of these drugs, Chin-I, dialectal Kim-Iya, was Arabicized as Kimiya and transliterated Chemeia by the Copts.
  • (18) The data, failing to produce evidence for an "undershoot" mechanism, support the view that dialect-specific correlates of stress are actively safeguarded by means of articulatory reorganization.
  • (19) Postmortem findings will continue to be a valid basis on which medical specialists can train their own medical thinking and can learn about the dialectics of pathological processes.
  • (20) The clustering in the present song, however, may also be due to a tendency for a mid vowel to be realized as a higher-beginning diphthong, which is characteristic of the North-Estonian coastal dialect area where the singers come from.

Patois


Definition:

  • (n.) A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the first time in my life I'd been around guys talking in slang and patois – stuff that had been passed down – and I was fascinated.
  • (2) By then, she was experimenting with a singing voice that was softer and more melodic than the harsh Jamaican patois she spat on the garage tracks.
  • (3) Two strains of Patois group arboviruses were isolated from Culex mosquitoes during 1970.
  • (4) I hadn't fully found my voice yet, but that persona enabled me to use wordplay that I probably wouldn't be able to do now, like inventing my own versions of youth patois which I always used to enjoy.
  • (5) The polypeptides synthesized in the coupled system depended on the amount and type of virus added; addition of purified Shark River (SR) virus, a member of the Patois group of bunyaviruses, resulted in synthesis of a polypeptide of mol.
  • (6) In Washington patois, "higher revenue" means higher taxes.
  • (7) Mean shit, that ice”; “The face of the Kuang logics kinda sleazes up to the target and mutates, so it gets to be exactly like the ice fabric.” The amusement for the reader is that we are inducted into this patois, learning the lingo as we go.
  • (8) Guadeloupe and Haiti speak the same patois so I used to chat to them all the time.
  • (9) Oligonucleotide fingerprint analyses of field isolates of LAC virus and members of the Patois serogroup of bunyaviruses have demonstrated that reassortment does occur in nature (El Said et al., 1979; Klimas et al., 1981; Ushijima et al., 1981).
  • (10) Sent ahead of this week's key meeting of the loya jirga – the House of Lords in local patois – the letter promised to amend the health and social care bill in ways that threaten the unity of the fragile coalition with the Cameroon fundamentalists.
  • (11) Nepuyo and Patois viruses were isolated from sentinel hamsters at both La Avellana and Puerto Barrios.
  • (12) Of 493 sera screened by complement-fixation test, 6 per cent were positive to Nepuyo, 4 per cent to Patois, and 3 per cent to Tlacotalpan viruses.
  • (13) But beneath the surface of cultural prestige, the resounding achievement of Derry's year as city of culture lies in the way it not only refused to airbrush the Troubles and Bloody Sunday with arty-farty gloss, but engaged in a reckoning with the recent past, beyond the politicians' patois of reconciliation.
  • (14) 15 workshops were devoted to training the development of curriculum; action-oriented songs, stories, skits, jingles, games, and pictures were created based on indigenous Jamaican folk music and patois intelligible to children with low literacy levels.
  • (15) And there certainly things wrong with 6 Music, not least the noisome presence of George Lamb, who seems to have been employed by the BBC after a concerted and ultimately fruitful search to find a DJ more irritating than Radio One's Chris Moyles, an impressive feat he achieves by the expedient of continually lapsing into faux Jamaican patois.
  • (16) This language, which is wholly false, which is this Jamaican patois that has intruded in England.

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