speech community

Speech communities may exist within a larger community of practice.

And these conventions are not of common currency throughout a speech community.

Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature.

To be considered part of a speech community, one must have a communicative competence.

CA researchers do not believe that the researcher needs to consult with the talk participants or members of their speech community.

It can be attached to a nationality or speech community to imply the language of such a people.

Introduction: Mobility, contact and language change working with contemporary speech communities.

However, no viable Hawaiian speech communities were ever established abroad.

At this superficial level, different kinds of speech community shape can be readily distinguished.

Some speech communities use "Nahuatl" as the name for their language although this seems to be a recent innovation.

When applied to languages, this theory operates around the various needs and pressures on a speech community.

Prescription presupposes an authority whose judgment may be followed by other members of a speech community.

Exact description of the speech community: Short a in Philadelphia.

It is know that they constituted a separate speech community because Columbus' interpreter was unable to understand their language.

Some forms of language contact affect only a particular segment of a speech community.

This refers to the level of respect accorded to a language or dialect within a speech community.

The United States is an example of a multidialectical speech community.

Speech communities create and establish their own speaking codes/norms.

This proposition states that within any given speech community, there are multiple speech codes.

But in previously unexplored speech communities, we do not have reliable social intuitions either.

Anthropological linguists define dialect as the specific form of a language used by a speech community.

Recent American studies, for example, show that the evolution of vowel sounds is effectively directed by the central figures in any given speech community.

Purism is a constant value-feature of the speech community.

Speech codes theory refers to a framework for communication in a given speech community.