SPEECH COMMUNITIESRizki Wahyu Indriani

Hani Patu tazkiahVevi Wulansari

Gugum GumilarSuryana

Apri NurrohmatR Dwi Indah Y

Definition

Language is both an individual possession and social possession.

Communities are defined with the relationship with other communities.

Definition

The kind of group that sociolinguists attempt to study is called Speech Community.

Characterisctic

Group differentiation from, other speakers. Examples: social, cultural, ethnic.

Communities are defined with the relationship with other communities.

Intersecting Communities

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 and 2. because interaction between them blurs whatever boundaries might be drawn .

Intersecting Communities

Dialects and languages are beginning to influence each other.

Each residential community has its unique multilingual mix and no language equates in distribution to a specific residential community.

The Concept

The concept of SC is less useful than what is expected and we should be instead referring to group as any set of individuals united for a common end.

The Concept

Each member of a community has a repertoire of social identities that are each one in a given context is associated with a number of nonverbal and verbal forms of expression.

The Concept

There is not a clear way on how to define how individuals can classify themselves and speakers are creating and recreating social identities. So, it is impossible to predict the group or community he or she will consider itself to belong in a particular moment. This group will change according to situation .

Networking and Repertoires (collected)

Intensity of various relationships Dense network: people you know and

interact with also know and interact with one another

Multiplex: tied together in a networka. Strong social cohesionb. Feelings of solidarityc. Encouragement to identify with others

Network and Repertoires (Collected)

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Open and Close Network

open network: A network which 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. Facebook.

Speech Repertoires

Verbal repertoire

Speech repertoire

The totality of linguistic forms employed in a socially significant interaction. (vocabulary,

grammar)

Linguistic varieties used by a speech community

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