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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“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 ● Sep. 21, 2022
“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 ● Jul. 21, 2022
The eyes of the free speech community are upon Texas this month.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2021
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 "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
