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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.
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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...
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speech community in question as well as the concept in general. 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 –
Oct 5, 2014 · N. J. Enfield , Paul Kockelman and. 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.
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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Oxford: Blackwell. ABSTRACT: The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method.
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Jan 21, 2008 · Peter L. Patrick. Published 21 January 2008. Linguistics, Sociology. The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method.
