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- Speech communities are groups that share values and attitudes about language use, varieties and practices. These communities develop through prolonged interaction among those who operate within these shared and recognized beliefs and value systems regarding forms and styles of communication.
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This chapter defines and identifies types of speech communities, provides the history of the term and examines its importance to the study of language and discourse in general. The concept of speech community does not simply focus on groups that speak the same language.
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May 14, 2024 · Charles Hockett, a prominent linguist, defined a speech community as a group of people who share a set of rules for communication. These rules encompass both verbal and non-verbal elements, enabling effective understanding and interaction within the community.
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The concept of speech as a means of identifying with a community first emerged in 1960s academia alongside other new fields of research like ethnic and gender studies. Linguists like John Gumperz pioneered research in how personal interaction can influence ways of speaking and interpreting, while Noam Chomsky studied how people interpret language a...
Speech communities can be large or small, although linguists don't agree on how they're defined. Some, like linguist Muriel Saville-Troike, argue that it's logical to assume that a shared language like English, which is spoken throughout the world, is a speech community. But she differentiates between "hard-shelled" communities, which tend to be in...
The concept of speech community plays a role in a number of social science, namely sociology, anthropology, linguists, even psychology. People who study issues of migration and ethnic identity use social community theory to study things like how immigrants assimilate into larger societies, for instance. Academics who focus on racial, ethnic, sexual...
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A speech community is a group of people who share a common language or dialect and use it to communicate with each other. These communities can be defined by geographical boundaries, social networks, or shared experiences, and they contribute significantly to dialectal and social variation in language.
Oct 5, 2014 · It describes the notion of the speech community from sociolinguistics to practice theory, in more general terms the concept can also be traced to a wider historical and philosophical tradition in various branches of language research.
From the start of sociolinguistic discussion of speech community, the aim has been to show that social organisation and language use are profoundly interwoven, and so when our sense of speech community alters, there are often consequences for the kinds of language use that we attend to.
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ABSTRACT: The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history of development and divergence, surveys general problems with contemporary notions, and discusses links to key issues in
