Speech community

Speech community

1. can be replaced or supplemented by

   • Community of practice
     • group of people organised
       • around
         • a common activity or practice
   • Social Network
     • some short of social tie
       • family
       • friends
       • co-workers
       • neighbours

2. two central ideas

   • shared linguistic norms
     • speakers
       • similar ways of producing speech
       • don't speak alike
         • but
           • speech is evaluated similarly
   • some kind of communincation lines
     • interactants
       • social reasons
       • physical reasons

3. boundaries

   • place
     • problem
       • speakers in the same space
         • different view of
           • the physical sorrounding
   • identity category
     • race
     • ethnicity
     • class
     • gender
     • problem
       • speakers
         • members of speech community
           • apparently non-members of the community
         • non-members of speech community
           • apparently members of the community