{"id":1541,"date":"2022-09-22T20:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T20:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2022-09-22T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T21:01:07","slug":"dialectical-vs-dialectal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/dialectical-vs-dialectal\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialectical vs. dialectal"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The adjective <em>dialectical<\/em> describes ideas reasoned about through <em>dialectic<\/em>, or the interaction of opposing or contradictory ideas. However, it is often used to in a rather different sense: &#8216;pertaining to dialects&#8217;. For that sense, the more natural word\u2014and here I am being moderately prescriptivist, or at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/not-prescriptivism\/\">distinctivist<\/a>\u2014is\u00a0<em>dialectal<\/em>. <em>Dialectical\u00a0<\/em>used for this latter sense is, in my opinion, a solecism. This essentially preserves a nice distinction, like the ones between\u00a0<em>classic<\/em> and\u00a0<em>classical<\/em> and between <em>economic\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>economical<\/em>. And certainly there are linguists who have good reason to write about both dialects and dialectics, perhaps even in the same study.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The adjective dialectical describes ideas reasoned about through dialectic, or the interaction of opposing or contradictory ideas. However, it is often used to in a rather different sense: &#8216;pertaining to dialects&#8217;. For that sense, the more natural word\u2014and here I am being moderately prescriptivist, or at least distinctivist\u2014is\u00a0dialectal. Dialectical\u00a0used for this latter sense is, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/dialectical-vs-dialectal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dialectical vs. dialectal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-language","category-presentation-of-self","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}