MEANING
The words or manner of expression typically used by a particular group or field.
Use it for
explaining a term used within a discipline; contrasting professional terminology with everyday speech; identifying the vocabulary of a historical communityIdentifies a community’s terminology without treating its labels as neutral or self-evident. Academic functions: Analysis / Interpretation, Theory / Conceptual Language.
Words that belong together
- in academic parlance
- in common parlance
- the parlance of the profession
On the page
In economic parlance, the term refers to a response to incentives rather than a personal moral judgment.
The historian preserves the officials’ parlance while explaining how its labels shaped their account of the dispute.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- parlance
Usage notes
Usually uncountable: in academic parlance, in the parlance of a profession. No routine plural. Register: formal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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