ANT206H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Language Ideology, Jean Lave, Speech Community
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Group of people who are set apart socially from others somehow will probably be set apart linguistically as well. Group of people set apart socially from others will probably set apart linguistically as well. This chapter provides overview of challenges involved in identifying communities of language users as objects of linguistic and social analysis. Linguistics etc. answered these questions in different ways. Concept of speech community has been the unspoken basis of most linguistics research . De saussure stated in order to have a language, there must be a community of speakers . Speakers of a language presumably constitute a homogeneous group. Hymes states the natural unit for sociolinguistic taxonomy, however, is not the language but the speech community . Many scholars have adopted in their definitions of the term speech community . Recent research drawing on the concept of speech community.
