Dictionary

speech community en · NOUN

Etymology

Probably a calque of German Sprachgemeinschaft.

Meanings

1. A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language
   • The phonetic laws always work without the consciousness of the speech community in which they act ; they are due wholly to physiological causes acting unknown to the will of the individual speaker. 1897, William Pierce Shepard, A contribution to the history of the unaccented vowels in Old French, page 17:
   • Another language of this group, Cantonese, probably ranks among the world's largest speech-communities. 1933, Leonard Bloomfield, Language, page 44:
   • Research indicates that men and women in the mainstream US culture tend to form separate speech communities. 2006, Mary Barrett, Marilyn Davidson, Gender and Communication at Work, page 271:

Forms

Translations (29)

de Sprachgemeinschaft (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · pl wspólnota mowna (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · pl społeczność komunikacyjna (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · fr communauté linguistique (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · ru языковое сообщество (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · ko 언어공동체 (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sk rečová komunita (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · uk мовне співтовариство (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · pl społeczność mowna (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sk jazyková komunita (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · id komunitas wicara (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · pl wspólnota komunikacyjna (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · id komunitas bahasa (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · cs jazyková komunita (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sh govorna zajednica (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · uk мовна спільнота (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · mk јазична заедница (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sl jezikovna skupnost (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · ru речевое сообщество (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · pl społeczność językowa (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · gl comunidade lingüística (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sl govorna skupnost (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · mk говорна заедница (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · id komunitas tutur (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · pl wspólnota językowa (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sh jezična zajednica (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · sh jezička zajednica (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · cs řečová komunita (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking) · be моўная супольнасць (group of people sharing a language or way of speaking)