Localness and local-sounding speech can become a commodity, and this, as we have seen, can create competition over the control of what localness means or over its uses.
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Localness
Synonyms for "localness" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
dialect usagelocal character
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
local vocabularylocality
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
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More general
7 entriesMore specific
6 entriesarea emphasisdialect usagelocal vocabularyplace focusregional focusregional slang
Collocations
6 entrieslocal characterlocalness in languagelocalness of foodslocalness of traditionsregionalism in educationsense of locality
Inflections
1 entriesDerivations
1 entriesSample sentences
1 total sentences available.