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The notion of speech community is most generally used as a tool to define a unit of analysis within which to analyse language variation and change. Stylistic features differ among speech communities based on factors such as the group's ethnicity and social status, common interests and the level of formality expected within the group and by its larger society .
Bucholtz portrays the SpCom as “a language-based unit of social analysis” (1999, p.203), and complains of the centrality of language, contending that “all non-linguistic aspects of social activity are marginalized or ignored” (p.207). For Hymes, however, the SpCom is not a naïve attempt to use language to compass a social unit, but ...
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 ...
- Marcyliena H. Morgan
- 2014
The Speech community is the principal unit of analysis in the ethnography of communication and sociolinguistics. It is an abstract “space” studied in sociolinguistics, where a complex interlocking social network of communication
1.2 EARLY DEFINITIONS OF SPEECH COMMUNITY In 1933 Leonard Bloomfield wrote: “A group of people who use the same set of speech signals is a speech-community” (1933: 29). This def-inition reflects a common belief of the time, that monolingualism – one language, one nation-state – is the canonical example of speech community (e.g ...
speech community as a group within a culture. While Patrick too grappled with the idea of speech community as a compound concept, he concluded that linguistic features should be more relevant than the social unit. The research future of 11 speech community11 When considering the future of a speech co1nmunity, one must recognize that over
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The notion of speech community is most generally used as a tool to define a unit of analysis within which to analyse language variation and change. Stylistic features differ among speech communities based on factors such as the group's ethnicity and social status, common interests and the level of formality expected within the group and by its larger society .
