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From Hymes (1962) onward, communication scholars, anthropologists, linguists, sociolinguists, and scholars in ethnic studies have not only used the term speech communities, but have extended its...
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Dell Hymes is considered by many to be the founder of the area known as Ethnography of Communication. In 1962 he proposed "ethnography of speaking" as a way to study how people talked. Later the name was changed to include other symbolic means of expression and called ethnography of communication.
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Mar 17, 2009 · Instructors of international and intercultural communication can use the sociolinguistic concept of speech community and its concomitant six aspects to organize their curricula and classroom activities efficiently and productively.
- Nancy Hoar
- 1993
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.
- Marcyliena H. Morgan
- 2014
Jan 1, 2004 · The Speech Community. Peter L. Patrick. Book Editor (s): J. K. Chambers, Peter Trudgill, Natalie Schilling-Estes. First published: 01 January 2004. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470756591.ch23. Citations: 14. PDF. Tools. Summary. This chapter contains sections titled: General Problems with Speech Community as a Concept.
- Peter L. Patrick
- 2008
Sep 1, 2019 · Ethnographers of communication reformulated the relationship between language and social organization by conceptualizing the speech community as a functionally integrated social system defined by shared assumptions about language use.
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Among the first students of speech communi-ties were the dialectologists, who charted the distribution of colloquial speech forms in soci-eties dominated by German, French, English, Polish, and other major standard literary tongues.