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Jun 5, 2014 · 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. While we are born with the ability to learn language ...
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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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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. Gumperz (1971) describes a speech community as “any gathering of individuals who ...
A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language. [1] The concept is mostly associated with sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature. Definitions of speech community tend to involve varying ...
tence in the same language.speech community is defined . . . as a community sharing knowledge of rules of conduct a. d interpretation of speech. Such sharing comprises knowledge of at least one form of speech, and knowledge also of its pattern.
1.2 Early definitions of speech community 3 1.3 Language, discourse and representation 6 1.4 Retrieving the speech community 9 1.5 Sociolinguistics and social actors 10 1.6 Language ideology 13 1.7 Conclusion 15 2 Representing speech communities 18 2.1 Imagined speech communities and contact zones 19 2.2 Language and symbols: indexing ...
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Oct 5, 2014 · The chapter focuses on the concept of speech community as it developed in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. 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.
