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The Speech Community. John 1. Gumperz. Although not all communication is linguistic, language is by far the most powerful and versatile medium of communication; all known human groups possess language. Unlike other sign systems, the verbal system can, through the minute refinement of its grammatical and semantic
and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English. Jenny Cheshire,a Paul Kerswill,b Sue Foxa and Eivind Torgersenc a. Queen Mary University of London b. Lancaster University, United Kingdom c. Sor-Trondelag University College, Norway. In the multilingual centres of Northern Europe's major
A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language. It's a concept mostly associated with sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature. Definitions of speech community tend to
ABSTRACT: The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is at the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. This paper traces its history of development and divergence, surveys general problems with contemporary notions, and discusses links to key issues in.
The speech community (SpCom), a core concept in empirical linguistics, is the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. I trace its history of development and divergence, survey general problems with contemporary notions, and discuss links to key issues in investigating language
Labov (1972) defined it as: "Participation in a set of shared norms; these norms may be observed in overt types of evaluative behavior, and by the uniformity of abstract patterns of variation which are invariant in respect to particular levels of usage" He proposed the first definition of speech community and his
'SPEECH COMMUNITY: A CRITIQUE OF LABOV'S DEFINITION. Dr. Darwish A-Amadidhi. Speech community is an important notion because language is both an individual possession and a social possession. Certain people have similar linguistic properties. Le. they speak the same language or the same variety.
in language, discourse and interaction. This chapter defines and iden- tifies types of speech communities, provides the history of the term and examines its importance to the study of language and discourse in general. The concept of speech community does not simply focus on groups that speak the same language. Rather
Language shift is the process by which a speech community in a contact situation (i.e. consisting of bilingual speakers) gradually stops using one of its two languages in favor of the other. The causal factors of language shift are generally considered to be social, and researchers have focused on speakers' attitudes (both
This paper analyses the EverQuest speech community from a pragmatic point of view, in order to find out how multiplayer games speech communities can be characterized. This study is part of the currently ongoing collective project “Have great faction with the dragons – an EverQuest Study" at the IT University in

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