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The speech community is not defined by any marked agreement in the use of language elements, so much as by participation in a set of shared norms: these norms may be observed in overt types of evaluative behavior, and by the uniformity of abstract patterns of variation which are invariant in respect to particular levels of usage.
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Sociolinguistics is the study of language use within or among groups of speakers. What are groups? ‘Group’ is a difficult concept to define but one we must try to grasp. For our purposes, a group must have at least two members but there is really no upper limit to group membership. People can group together for one or more reasons: social, religiou...
Try to label yourself according to what kind(s) of English you speak. Explain why you choose the specific terms you use and any connotations these terms have for you, e.g., Bristol English, Texas English, educated Tyneside English. To show that very small changes in linguistic behavior can serve to disaffiliate you from other members of the same sp...
Try to determine in what respects the following countries are both single speech communities and complexes of intersecting speech communities: the United States, Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, Australia, Switzer-land, Haiti, and India. Explain the idea that a community or group must be defined partly in relation to some other community ...
Another way of viewing how an individual relates to other individuals in society is to ask what networks he or she participates in. That is, how and on what occasions does a specific individual A interact now with B, then with C, and then again with D? How intensive are the various relationships: does A interact more frequently with B than with C o...
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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.
- Marcyliena H. Morgan
- 2014
Jan 13, 2005 · We present here a brief tour of three models of ‘community’ that have been influential in the sociolinguistic literature – ‘speech communities’ (see Patrick 2002 for a very detailed review);...
In another words, New Yorkers form a single speech community because all group exhibit an increase in the variant (r) as the level of formality increases. Labov's study in 1966 showed that every group exhibited a regular style shifting in the same direction.
that in monolingual or majority speech communities, a strongly stigmatized vernacular variant may not be used by middle-class speakers or, conversely, a markedly formal variant may never be used by working-class speakers.
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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
