speech communities

2. Language is both an individual possession and
social possession.
Communities are defined with the relationship
with other communities.

3.  The kind of group that sociolinguists
attempt to study is called Speech
Community.

4.  Group differentiation from, other speakers.
Examples: social, cultural, ethnic.
 Communities are defined with the
relationship with other communities.

5.  Each person speaks their own “typical” way
according to its place of origin or specific
speech community.
 Rosen claims that cities cannot be thought of
as a linguistic patchwork maps, ghetto after
ghetto because: 1. languages and dialects
have no simple geographical distribution
and 2. because interaction between them
blurs whatever boundaries might be drawn .

6.  Dialects and languages are beginning to
influence each other.
 Each residential community has its unique
multilingual mix and no language equates in
distribution to a specific residential
community.

7.  The concept of SC is less useful than what is
expected and we should be instead referring
to group as any set of individuals united for
a common end.

8.  Each member of a community has a
repertoire of social identities that are each
one in a given context is associated with a
number of nonverbal and verbal forms of
expression.

9.  There is not a clear way on how to define
how individuals can classify themselves and
speakers are creating and recreating social
identities. So, it is impossible to predict the
group or community he or she will consider
itself to belong in a particular moment. This
group will change according to situation .

10.  Intensity of various relationships
 Dense network: people you know and interact
with also know and interact with one
another
 Multiplex: tied together in a network
a. Strong social cohesion
b. Feelings of solidarity
c. Encouragement to identify with others

12.  open network: A network which provides
open access to its users. Information is often
new and of importance, a (serious) blogger
and visitors of blog.
 closed network: mostly strong ties.
Information that flows in those networks
tends to be redundant and inefficient.
Facebook.

13. Verbal repertoire
Speech repertoire
The totality of linguistic forms employed in
a socially significant interaction.
(vocabulary,
grammar)
Linguistic varieties
used by a speech
community

14. Thank You 