Usus

Usus (Latin: usus — usage; long-established rule, practice, custom) is the common usage of linguistic units (words, idioms, forms) in a particular speech community.[1][2][3] It may be used as one of the criteria of laying out prescriptive norms for standard language usage.[4]

Usus can be contrasted with both low-frequency usage and codified standard usage. The term is used to designate usage that has widespread or significant acceptance among speakers of a language, regardless of its conformity to the sanctioned standard language norms.[1]

Usus was a crucial term in the research of Danish linguists Otto Jespersen and Louis Hjelmslev.[5]

Notes
  1. Markowski (2005), p. 21
  2. Nebeská (2017)
  3. Olinkiewicz, Elżbieta; Radzymińska, Katarzyna; Styś, Halina (1999). Słownik Encyklopedyczny - Język polski (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Europa. ISBN 83-87977-20-9.
  4. Korpysz, Tomasz (2017-01-29). "Uwaga na uzus". Porady (in Polish). Idziemy. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  5. Dace Strelēvica-Ošiņa (2019), "The Language of Correctness: Some Terms of Latin Origin", Antiquitas Viva, 5: 191, doi:10.22364/av5.16, ISSN 2255-9779

References
  • Nebeská, Iva (2017). "ÚZUS". In Karlík, Petr; Nekula, Marek; Pleskalová, Jana (eds.). Nový encyklopedický slovník češtiny (in Czech).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Markowski, Andrzej (2005). Kultura języka polskiego. Teoria. Zagadnienia leksykalne (in Polish). Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. ISBN 83-01-14526-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)


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