LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
INTRODUCTION
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Question
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A body of individuals living as members of a community
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They speak the same language or dialect.
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The members of the group must interact linguistically with other members of the community.
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They may share similar attitudes toward linguistic norms.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On the basis of this analysis, Labov suggested that the most useful defining characteristic of a speech community was precisely such shared linguistics norms. Others have suggested shared rules of use, density of patterns of interaction, or a shared pattern of variation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Definitions of speech community tend to involve varying degrees of emphasis on the following: Shared community membership. Shared linguistic communication.
Detailed explanation-3: -To participate in a speech community is not quite the same as to be a member of it. Here we encounter the limitation of any conception of speech community in terms of knowledge alone, even knowledge of patterns of speaking as well as of grammar, and of course, of any definition in terms of interaction alone.