speech community

Example Sentences

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Morgan liked hip-hop, but she thought of it as a performance, not a speech community—a common language or dialect shared by a group of people.

From The Wall Street Journal

“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