Speech fluency and

speech
performance.
Language and speech communities.
 Speech Communities

• What are speech communities?

• Some definitions of Speech Communities.
• Two concepts that are emphasized by Speech Community.
• Intersecting communities.
• Networks and Repertoires.
 Speech community.

• A groupof people who share the same language, speech

characteristics, and ways of interpreting communication.

• All the people who use a given language or dialect is called

speech community.
• It is derived from the German Word “Sprachgemeinsch”
 • A speech community is a group of people
who form a community and share the same
language or a particular variety of
languages.
• Speech community can be large or small,
although linguistics don´t agree on how they
´re defined.
Definitions of • John Lyons (1970:326) defines speech
speech communiy as all people who use a given
community. language or dialect.
• A group of people who share rules for
conducting and interpreting at least one
variety of a language or dialect. The term
can be applied to a neighborhood, a city, or
a nation.
 Characteristics of speech
communities.

• They speak the same language or dialect.

• The members of the group must interact
linguistically with other members of the
community.
• They may share similar attitudes towards linguistics
norms.
Concepts that are
emphasized by speech
community.

• SHARE COMMUNITY MEMBERSHIP.

• SHARE LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION.
 • An individual belongs to various speech communities, at the
Intersecting same time, but on another particular occasion will identify
with only one of them.
Communities. • Particular identification.
• For instance.
 • A person can be part of various speech
communities, some that interact and some that do
not. Certain individuals may be in one or more
groups but not others.
• The linguistics repertoire of one individual speaker is
Networks and determined by the language varieties that he or she
knows and uses within his or her speech community
Repertoire. (active and passive knowledge).
• Open networks.
• Close networks.
• Dense nekwork.
• Multiple network.
• According to Platt; Repertoire is the
range of linguistic varieties that the
speaker has at his/her disposal and
he/she may appropriately use a
member of his/her speech
community.
Repertoires
• Verbal repertoire.
• Speech repertoire.
Reference
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231598/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/
fpsyg.2022.859213/full