1. SPEECH COMMUNITIES
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A community: a group of people with a
shared set of
activities, practices, beliefs, and social
structures.
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A speech community: a group of
people who share similar
ideas, uses, and norms of language.
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Language variety: refers to a set of
communicative forms and norms for
their use that are restricted to a
particular group, community or
activities

3. They use the language according to a set
of norms to share enough characteristics
of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary

4. Social network
Another way of describing a particular
speech community in terms of relations
among its individual members.
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Tight community: all members of one
group interacting with each other.
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Looser community: little interaction
among the members of a group

5. Internal/external language
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External language: all that happens
among people in social contexts.
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Internal language: all which happens
inside our minds

6. Five Key Elements for the Speech
Community
 Foundational condition
-Population
-Area
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Improving condition
-Facility
-Identification
-Interaction

7. Sociolinguistics: the study of language
use within or among groups of
speakers
Group must have at least two
members. Reasons: social, religious,
political, cultural, familial, vocational,
etc.

8. The group may be temporary or quasipermanent
 The purposes of its members may change
 Its members may come and go
 They may also belong to other groups and
may or may not meet face-to-face.
 The organization of the group may be tight or
loose
 The importance of group membership is likely
to vary among individuals within the group
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9. What aspects may cause you to belong in
a speech community & not in another?
“Sociolinguistic variables”
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Age
Social Class
Education
Occupation/Hobbies
Region/Space
Family
Religion
Gender
Ethnicity/Race

10. Intersecting Communities
People do use expressions indicates
that they have some idea of how a
„typical‟ person from each place
speaks -> to be a member of a
particular speech community
somewhat loosely defined.
E.g.: New York speech, London
speech, South African speech

11. Linguistic Variable
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A linguistic item which has identified variants:
Fishin / fishing/ fishen
Car / cah
With / wit / wif
Latin / la?in
thirty / thirdy
Coffee / cowfee
“It was a macao Tom not a parrot!”
He‟s happy / he be happy / he happy
Climbed / clomb
Look for a present for my mom / look for my mom
a present

12. 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
2. interaction between them blurs whatever
boundaries might be drawn

13. Network Relationships
open network: 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.
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14. It is important to remember that group is a
relative concept with respect to speech community.
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Also that an individual belongs to
various speech communities, at the same time, but
he/she will identify with only one of them.
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There is a link between structures of economic,
social and political power and the use of language.
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That variation of the use of language is linked to
other social systems of organization.

15. Do you think Hip Hop music can be
considered a marker of personal
or/and group identity? How? Why?

16.  Who forms a part of the community? What do
you share?
 What connects you as a group? What is the
community's purpose?