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    The document discusses definitions of the term "speech community" from sociolinguistics. A speech community refers to a group of people who communicate with each other using a common language or dialect. It may include all people who use a given language, with the key criteria being regular interaction and communication within the community through a shared language. While often monolingual, a speech community can also be multilingual as long as there are frequent social interaction patterns between members.

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    The document discusses definitions of the term "speech community" from sociolinguistics. A speech community refers to a group of people who communicate with each other using a common language or dialect. It may include all people who use a given language, with the key criteria being regular interaction and communication within the community through a shared language. While often monolingual, a speech community can also be multilingual as long as there are frequent social interaction patterns between members.

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    The document discusses definitions of the term "speech community" from sociolinguistics. A speech community refers to a group of people who communicate with each other using a common language or dialect. It may include all people who use a given language, with the key criteria being regular interaction and communication within the community through a shared language. While often monolingual, a speech community can also be multilingual as long as there are frequent social interaction patterns between members.

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    SPEECH COMMUNITY

    • The term SPEECH COMMUNITY is


    • widely used by sociolinguists to refer to a
    community based on language, but
    • LINGUISTIC COMMUNITY is also used with the
    same meaning.
    • John Lyons (1970) Speech community is based
    all the people who use a given language (or
    dialect)
    • Charles Hockett (1958) Each language defines
    a speech community: the whole set of people
    who communicate with each other, either
    directly or indirectly, via the common language.
    • Here the criterion of communication within the
    community is added, so that if two
    communities both spoke the same language
    but had no contact with each other at all, they
    would count as different speech communities
    • Leonard Bloomfield (1933) A speech community is a
    group of people who interact by means of speech.
    • This leaves open the possibility that some interact by
    means of one language, and others by means of
    another. This possibility is explicitly recognised in the
    definition given by John Gumperz (1962): We will
    define [linguistic community] as a social group which
    may be either monolingual or multilingual, held
    together by frequency of social interaction patterns.

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