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Oct 5, 2014 · Jack Sidnell. Chapter. Get access. Cite. Summary. This chapter focuses on three particular concepts, community, culture, and the public. It examines some of the early and polemical work on the speech community.
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 and Identity
- Types of Communities
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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...
- Richard Nordquist
Bloomfield (1935) first introduced the term in 1926. He defined a speech commu11ity as, "a group of people who interact through means of speech" (p. 42). Bloomfield's fuller explanation of the term inclt1des the characteristics of the group, the language used, as well as research methods by which to study it.
Jan 1, 2020 · Gumperz defines the speech community as ‘any human aggregate characterized by regular and frequent interaction by means of a shared body of verbal signs and set off from similar aggregates by significant differences in language usage’ (1968, 381). In a sense, Gumperz also elaborates on the connection between the speech community as a ...
- Sven Leuckert
- sven.leuckert@tu-dresden.de
- 2020
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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Jan 1, 2004 · 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. History of the Speech Community: Principal Theorists
