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Meaning of speech community | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language

Equivalents

Deutsch Sprachgemeinschaft
Français communauté linguistique
Bahasa Indonesia komunitas bahasa
한국어 언어공동체
Русский речевое сообщество языковое сообщество

Examples

“The phonetic laws always work⟳ without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker.”
“Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities.”
“Research⟳ indicates that men and women in the mainstream US culture tend⟳ to form⟳ separate⟳ speech communities.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

speech day speech disfluency speech disorder speech fright speech from the throne speech impediment

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