parlance
A group's lingo
Parlance refers to a particular way of speaking or using words that is characteristic of a specific group, profession, or context.
In legal parlance, "consideration" means something exchanged in a contract.
The word almost always appears with a modifier indicating whose manner of speaking is meant: medical parlance, military parlance, common parlance.
It emphasizes vocabulary and phrasing rather than accent or pronunciation.
Subject-specific vocabulary
- argotGroup-specific coded speech
- cantSanctimonious insincerity
- lexiconVocabulary of a language
- shoptalkWork-related conversation
legalese · medicalese · bureaucratese · technobabble · journalese · buzzwords · acronyms · nomenclature
Regional language variety
- patoisRegional informal speech
- creoleNativized pidgin tongue
- pidginImprovised contact language
- colloquialismCasual conversational expression
regionalism · localism · idiom · slang · mother-tongue · demotic · vulgate
Choice of words
- phraseologyManner of verbal expression
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
elocution · discourse · expression · locution · wording · phrasing · usage · style
Conveyed thought or feeling
- sayingShort, wise expression
- catchphraseSignature line of words
- colloquialismCasual conversational expression
terminology
Subject-specific vocabulary
shoptalk · legalese · medicalese · bureaucratese · technobabble · journalese · buzzwords · acronyms · nomenclature · officialese
dialect
Regional language variety
colloquialism · regionalism · localism · idiom · slang · mother-tongue · demotic · vulgate
diction
Choice of words
- phraseologyManner of verbal expression
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
oratory · elocution · discourse · expression · locution · wording · phrasing · usage · style · register
expression
Conveyed thought or feeling
- sayingShort, wise expression
- catchphraseSignature line of words
- colloquialismCasual conversational expression
parlancesilence
Total lack of sound
muteness · listening · reticence · taciturnity · speechlessness
parlancestandard language
Codified, official linguistic form
common speech · plain English · everyday language · layman's terms · lingua franca
- common parlanceOrdinary, informal speech patterns
- local parlanceSpeech patterns of residents