Meaning of speech community | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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.”

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