speech community
Use Speech community in a sentencespeech community
Origin:
1930–35
1930–35
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| speech community | |
| —n | |
| a community consisting of all the speakers of a particular language or dialect | |
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Speech community
is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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Membership in a common speech community affects the technician's work as well.
The speech community expects linguistic judgments from linguists.
Generally, appropriateness is determined by each speech community.
As the younger generation replaces the older one, the change is carried through the speech community.
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