Д®ither course of events typically results in a relatively fixed orthography codified in grammars and normative dictionaries, in which users can also sometimes find illustrative examples drawn from literary, legal, or religious texts. These conventions develop from related dialects, usually by social action (ethnic and cultural unification) that elevate discourse patterns associated with perceived centers of culture, or more rarely, by deliberately defining the norms of standard language with selected linguistic features drawn from the existing dialects, as in the case of Modern Hebrew. The term standard language identifies a repertoire of broadly recognizable conventions in spoken and written communications used in a society the term implies neither a socially ideal idiom nor a culturally superior form of speech. In contemporary linguistic usage, the terms standard dialect and standard variety are neutral synonyms for the term standard language, usages which indicate that the standard language is one of many dialects and varieties of a language, rather than the totality of the language, whilst minimizing the negative implication of social subordination that the standard is the only idiom worthy of the appellation 'language'. The term literary language is occasionally used as a synonym for standard language, a naming convention still prevalent in the linguistic traditions of eastern Europe. In Europe, a standardized written language is sometimes identified with the German word Schriftsprache (written language). In that vein, a pluricentric language has interacting standard varieties examples are English, French, and Portuguese, German, Korean, and Serbo-Croatian, Spanish and Swedish, Armenian and Mandarin Chinese whereas monocentric languages, such as Russian and Japanese, have one standardized idiom.

Typically, standardization processes include efforts to stabilize the spelling of the prestige dialect, to codify usages and particular ( denotative) meanings through formal grammars and dictionaries, and to encourage public acceptance of the codifications as intrinsically correct. The standardization of a language is a continual process, because a language-in-use cannot be permanently standardized like the parts of a machine. As a sociological effect of these processes, most users of this language come to believe that the standard language is inherently superior or consider it the linguistic baseline against which to judge other varieties of language.

By processes that linguistic anthropologists call 'referential displacement' and that sociolinguists call 'elaboration of function', these varieties acquire the social prestige associated with commerce and government. Typically, the language varieties that undergo substantive standardization are the dialects associated with centers of commerce and government. Language variety with substantially codified grammar and usageДЄ standard language (also standard variety, standard dialect, and standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of grammar and usage, although occasionally the term refers to the entirety of a language that includes a standardized form as one of its varieties.

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