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Definition of Speech community
1. Noun. People sharing a given language or dialect.
Definition of Speech community
1. Noun. (linguistics) A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Speech Community
Literary usage of Speech community
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"Linguistic change begins when the generalization of a particular alternation in
a given subgroup of the speech community assumes direction and takes on the ..."
2. From Latin to Spanish by Paul M. Lloyd (1987)
"Linguistic change begins when the generalization of a particular alternation in
a given subgroup of the speech community assumes direction and takes on the ..."
3. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"On the other hand a child of any race and any human physiological structure, if
brought up from infancy in an alien speech community will acquire accurately ..."
4. The Authority of Law in Language by George Philip Krapp (1908)
"From the vast number of possible sounds and combinations of sounds some certain
few are selected by a speech community for its purposes of speech ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"The answer to the question must come, if it be given at all, from the consensus
of the speech-community, which may or may not in turn call upon a scientific ..."
6. Congress of Arts and Science: Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904 by Howard Jason Rogers (1906)
"... by the rest of the speech-community. Having been originated elsewhere, the
change is afterwards accepted and — mostly unconsciously — imitated. ..."
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