Sentence examples for Speech community from inspiring English sources

Whorf noted that to communicate thoughts and experiences with members of a speech community speakers must use the linguistic categories of their shared language, which requires moulding experiences into the shape of language to speak them a process called "thinking for speaking".

(Creoles are pidgin languages that have become the only or major language of a speech community).

Diglossia, the coexistence of two varieties of the same language throughout a speech community.

The Songhai speech community probably absorbed speakers from various other linguistic communities through a process of primary language shift.

The comparative design within the same speech community stressed the role of affordances as nonhuman language agents in the social process of language policy.

I suggest that the notion of CC be conceptualized as multiple competences in a heterogeneous speech community in which there are multiple norms.

The language policy of a speech community consists of the commonly agreed-upon set of choices of language items or language varieties and the ideologies associated with those choices.

Emphasis is on generally non-Western speech communities.

The comparative method presupposes linguistically uniform speech communities and independent development after sudden, sharp cleavage.

Smaller speech communities exist in Iran, Tajikistan, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.

Significant Hindi speech communities are also found in South Africa, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Yemen, and Uganda.