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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.
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Sociolinguistics studies consider the community as a speech community. They examine the relationship between language and the social world considering how language creates structures in the society.
That thinking can be either analytical (for example, the distribution or environmental hazards) or practical (the cost of transport and communication across distance), and either critical (for example, organizing social movements across national borders) or repressive (plotting the war on terror).
- Miyako Inoue
- 2021
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
The concept of speech community does not simply focus on groups that speak the same language. Rather, the concept takes as fact that language represents, embodies, constructs and constitutes meaningful participation in society and culture.
- Marcyliena H. Morgan
- 2014
Mar 1, 2021 · A Nedroma speech community is the sample population. This study emphasises phonological, morphological and lexical levels of analysis, trying to make use of both quantitative and qualitative...
As an analytical concept the verbal repertoire allows us to establish direct relationships between its constituents and the socioeconomic complexity of the community. We measure this relationship in terms of two concepts: linguistic range and degree of compartmentalization.
The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. I trace its history of development...
