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speech community
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speech community
n.
A group of speakers, whether located in one area or scattered, who recognize the same language or dialect of a language as a standard.

speech community
n
(Linguistics) a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect
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Noun1.speech community - people sharing a given language or dialect
community - a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"


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First she surveys how the Native, European, and African peoples were transformed from tribes into races; then how the languages became dialects through language contact and variation and the rhetorical patterns of speech communities.
He draws on physiology, phenomenology, systems theory, and linguistics to organize early modern England into speech communities and soundscapes.
Thus, deciding a priori that the notion of style is homogeneous and directly comparable in Arabic-speaking speech communities and English-speaking speech communities is ignoring the different social meanings that seemingly similar stylistic activities encode in the two speech communities.
 
 
 
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