Name : Riza nurfadilah

Nim : 5.16.06.14.0.022

SPEECH COMMUNITIES

1. Speech Communities
Speech communities is a group of people who speak the same language and share the same
dialects, words, and grammar rules of language standard. Language is both an individual possession
and social possession. Speech community is hard to define it, because there is not a true definition of
it.
Characteristics of speech Communities:
1. Group differentiation from other speakers.
2. Communities are defined with the relationship with other communities.

2. Interesting Communities
Is language that used from communies such as like we know people is Balinese, batakness,
sundaness by looking their word , accent , intonation and also dialects . The concept of SC Is less
useful than what is expected and we shoulder be instead reference to group as any set of individual for
a commonend.

3. Networking and Repertoires

Is show that a person can be part of various speech communities, some that intersect and some
that do not.
The kinds of networking and Repertoires:
1. Intensities of various relationship
2. Dense network
3. Multiplex

 Open Network: A network which provide open access to its users. Information is often new and
of importance, a (serious) blogger and visitor of blog.

 Closed Network: Mostly strong ties. Information that flows in those networks tends to be
redundant and inefficient. Facebook

4. Speech Repertoires
  Verbal repertoire: The totality of linguistic forms employed in a socially significant interaction.
(Vocabulary, grammar)

 Speech Repertoire: Linguistic Varieties used by a speech community.

It is important to remember that group is a relative concept with respect to speech community. Also
that an individual belongs to various speech communities, at the same time, but he/she will identify
with only one of them. There are many definitions for speech communities which are all different: too
simple or to complex.