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Speech Communities: WILDAN BILAL A. - 11211141037 RIZKY YULIA N. - 11211144008 Janjang Kastori - 11211144022

The document discusses speech communities and the key elements that define them. A speech community is a group of people who share similar language norms and varieties. It examines the factors that influence a person's membership in different speech communities and how language varies across social contexts.

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Speech Communities: WILDAN BILAL A. - 11211141037 RIZKY YULIA N. - 11211144008 Janjang Kastori - 11211144022

The document discusses speech communities and the key elements that define them. A speech community is a group of people who share similar language norms and varieties. It examines the factors that influence a person's membership in different speech communities and how language varies across social contexts.

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SPEECH COMMUNITIES

WILDAN BILAL A. | 11211141037


RIZKY YULIA N. | 11211144008
JANJANG KASTORI |
11211144022
 A community: a group of people with a
shared set of
activities, practices, beliefs, and social
structures.
 A speech community: a group of
people who share similar
ideas, uses, and norms of language.
 Language variety: refers to a set of
communicative forms and norms for
their use that are restricted to a
particular group, community or
activities
They use the language according to a set
of norms to share enough characteristics
of pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary
Social network
Another way of describing a particular
speech community in terms of relations
among its individual members.
 Tight community: all members of one
group interacting with each other.
 Looser community: little interaction
among the members of a group
Internal/external language

 External language: all that happens


among people in social contexts.

 Internal language: all which happens


inside our minds
Five Key Elements for the Speech
Community
 Foundational condition
-Population
-Area

 Improving condition
-Facility
-Identification
-Interaction
Sociolinguistics: the study of language
use within or among groups of
speakers

Group must have at least two


members. Reasons: social, religious,
political, cultural, familial, vocational,
etc.
 The group may be temporary or quasi-
permanent
 The purposes of its members may change
 Its members may come and go
 They may also belong to other groups and
may or may not meet face-to-face.
 The organization of the group may be tight or
loose
 The importance of group membership is likely
to vary among individuals within the group
What aspects may cause you to belong in
a speech community & not in another?
“Sociolinguistic variables”

 Age
 Social Class
 Education
 Occupation/Hobbies
 Region/Space
 Family
 Religion
 Gender
 Ethnicity/Race
Intersecting Communities
People do use expressions indicates
that they have some idea of how a
„typical‟ person from each place
speaks -> to be a member of a
particular speech community
somewhat loosely defined.
E.g.: New York speech, London
speech, South African speech
Linguistic Variable
A linguistic item which has identified variants:
 Fishin / fishing/ fishen
 Car / cah
 With / wit / wif
 Latin / la?in
 thirty / thirdy
 Coffee / cowfee
 “It was a macao Tom not a parrot!”
 He‟s happy / he be happy / he happy
 Climbed / clomb
 Look for a present for my mom / look for my mom
a present
Each person speaks their own “typical” way
according to its place of origin or specific
speech community

Rosen claims that cities cannot be thought of


as a linguistic patchwork maps, ghetto after
ghetto because:
1. languages and dialects have no simple
geographical distribution
2. interaction between them blurs whatever
boundaries might be drawn
Network Relationships
 open network: provides open access
to its users. Information is often new
and of importance, a (serious) blogger
and visitors of blog.
 closed network: mostly strong ties.
Information that flows in those
networks tends to be redundant and
inefficient.
 It is important to remember that group is a
relative concept with respect to speech community.

 Also that an individual belongs to


various speech communities, at the same time, but
he/she will identify with only one of them.

 There is a link between structures of economic,


social and political power and the use of language.

 That variation of the use of language is linked to


other social systems of organization.
Do you think Hip Hop music can be
considered a marker of personal
or/and group identity? How? Why?
 Who forms a part of the community? What do
you share?

 What connects you as a group? What is the


community's purpose?

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