speech community
Example Sentences
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At UCLA, she saw hip-hop as a speech community and a way for youth—particularly youth of color—to express themselves through music, art, dance and fashion.
“We create a speech community among our peers, and not across generations. So that generation that felt the slur will still feel it.”
From Los Angeles Times
“And yet it is the lexicon, it is the vocabulary that is the most imitated and celebrated — but not with the African American speech community being given credit for it.”
From New York Times
Linguists talk about the phenomenon of “accommodation”— which is the way in which we seek to adapt our own language to fit into a speech community.
From Literature
What makes this a sensitive topic in education is that our most widely used allusions reflect the culture and history of the dominant "speech community."
From US News
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
