Usage courant et commun, non marqué, observé dans une communauté linguistique et correspondant à la formulation la plus probable dans une situation de communication donnée.

Any unmarked current convention that is observed in a linguistic community and that constitutes the most probable formulation in a given communication situation.

The dimension of usage is divided into a common usage which corresponds to the widespread use in community, and correct usage, which has been legislated by philological knowledge and which is, for this reason, the criteria for linguistic correction on which the ideal of a homogeneous linguistic community is based.