ANTHRO 2D Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Speech Community, Virtual Community, Verbal Behavior
13 Feb 2018
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Anthro 2d - lecture 5 - speech events & speech communities. Speech event - culturally meaningful activities with particular rules and expectations for how to use language. E. g. introducing yourself, introducing someone else, asking someone on a date, a(cid:272)(cid:272)epti(cid:374)g a (cid:272)o(cid:373)pli(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:862)getti(cid:374)g to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) you(cid:863), aski(cid:374)g a fa(cid:448)or. Ambiguity when asking out is to feel things out, depends on context. Participants - people involved in doing the talking. Ends - purposes, goals, outcomes of the activity. Act sequence - what is the order of things that happen in a speech event. Key - tone, manner, or spirit of the event. Norms - rules governing a speech event. Speech community - (cid:862)a(cid:374)y hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) aggregate (cid:272)hara(cid:272)terized (cid:271)y regular and frequent interaction by means of a shared body of verbal signs and set off from similar aggregates by significant differences in language usage(cid:863) E. g. nations, regional dialects, professional talk, virtual communities, colleges, groups of friends.
