sublanguage

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Etymology

From sub- +‎ language.

Noun

sublanguage (plural sublanguages)

  1. (computing) A subset of a language, in particular of a programming language.
    • 2015, Miguel Cebollero, Michael Coles, Jay Natarajan, Pro T-SQL Programmer's Guide, Apress, →ISBN, page 4:
      DML is considered a sublanguage of SQL. It's concerned with manipulating data stored in the database. DML consists of four commonly used statements: INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE.
  2. (linguistics) A language restricted to a specific context, such as a particular subject area.
    the sublanguage of weather bulletins
    • 1982, Richard Kittredge, John Lehrberger, editors, Sublanguage: Studies of Language in Restricted Semantic Domains, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 27:
      We define sublanguage here as the particular language used in a body of texts dealing with a circumscribed subject area (often reports or articles on a technical speciality or science subfield), in which the authors share a common vocabulary and common habits of word usage.
    • 1995, Douglas Biber, Dimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 16:
      Sublanguages are usually taken from science and technology domains and are restricted to a particular topic.

See also

  • DSL (“domain-specific language”)
  • LSP (“language for specific purposes”)
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