speech community
1Speech community — is a concept in sociolinguistics that describes a more or less discrete group of people who use language in a unique and mutually accepted way among themselves.Speech communities can be members of a profession with a specialized jargon, distinct… …
2speech community — n. all the people speaking a particular language or dialect, whether in a single geographical area or dispersed throughout various regions …
3speech community — noun people sharing a given language or dialect • Hypernyms: ↑community * * * ˈspeech community 8 [speech community] noun all the people who speak a particular language or variety of a language • the Kodava speech community in India …
4speech community — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms speech community : singular speech community plural speech communities all the people who speak a particular language, even if they live in many different parts of the world …
5speech community — speech com,munity noun count all the people who speak a particular language, even if they live in many different parts of the world …
6speech community — speech′ commu nity n. ling. the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect • Etymology: 1930–35 …
7speech community — /ˈspitʃ kəmjunəti/ (say speech kuhmyoohnuhtee) noun 1. the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect. 2. a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place …
8speech community — noun Date: 1894 a group of people sharing characteristic patterns of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation …
9speech community — Ling. 1. the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect. 2. a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place. [1930 35] * * * …
10speech community — noun A group of people sharing a language, or a particular way of using that language …
