Speech Communities
SPEECH COMMUNITIES
The definition of a speech community
is a group of people who speak the same language and share the same dialect,
words , and grammar rules of a language as a standard. These individuals also
share the understanding of at least one language so that they may communicate
with each other.
Membership in a speech
community includes local knowledge of the way language choice, variation,
and discourse represents
generation, occupation, politics, social relationships, identity, etc
Example: in transgender
communities, they use particular vocabulary such as “akika” to change the word
“aku” and “begindang” to change the word “begitu”. When they making
transaction, “berapose” that means “berapa” or to say “benar” by saying “ember”
In Speech communities, there are:
a. Intersecting
communities: language
that used from communities such as like we know people is baliness, batakness,
sundaness by looking their word, accent, intonation and also dialect.
b. Network and repertoire: it is
show that a person can be part of various speech communities by an interaction
in network and repertoires is various language variotion that have got from
network.
Factors of speech communities:
1.Age
2.Gender
3.Social status
4.Religion
5.Education
Questions:
1. Is slang include of speech
communities?
Answer: Yes, it is. Because slang is created from communities and it
expand to be an informal language for some country that they often use slang in
their communities.
2. Is it possible one speech communities
used by the other communities?
Answer: yes, it is possible. But it can be a good or bad word, if the
user use it correctly and know that meaning.
3. Why speech communities exist?
Answer: to make the people in community are enjoyable to interact each
other and to improve their language abilities that used in social
activities.
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