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- Bloomfield (1935) first introduced the term in 1926.He defined a speech community as, "a group of people who interact through means of speech" fi. sz¡. Bloomfield's fuller explanation of the term includes the characteristics of the group, the language used, as well as research methods by which to study it.
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A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language. [1] The concept is mostly associated with sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature. Definitions of speech community tend to involve varying ...
- Speech and Identity
- Types of Communities
- Study and Research
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
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
Bloomfield’s conception of the homogeneous speech community rep-resented the canon in linguistic anthropology until Noam Chomsky (1965) began to challenge the concept’s utility. Chomsky’s work cri-tiqued descriptive and structural analyses of language and introduced a theoretical approach that explored the human capacity to produce
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
Jan 21, 2008 · 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...
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Oct 5, 2014 · Linguistic anthropologists share with sociolinguists the concern for a notion of a speech community as a real group of people who share something about the way in which they use language. The chapter focuses on the concept of speech community as it developed in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. It describes the notion of the speech ...
