Linked from

The 15 pages that link to Speech community, each with the reason it gives.

• Code-switchingNarrower topic: Community norms influence which switches sound ordinary, marked, or inappropriate.

• DiglossiaRelated: Shared expectations within a community make functional variety divisions recognizable.

• SociolinguisticsNarrower topic: Shared norms help make linguistic patterns socially meaningful.

• Endangered languageRelated: A language’s prospects depend on how its community uses and transmits it.

• Register (sociolinguistics)Related: Shared norms shape which registers sound appropriate in a community.

• Language socializationRelated: Its norms shape which ways of speaking count as appropriate in particular situations.

• Linguistic anthropologyNarrower topic: Provides a social unit for studying shared communicative expectations.

• Ethnography of communicationNarrower topic: Shared communication norms define the cultural setting under study.

• William LabovRelated: Labov’s analyses treat shared community norms as essential to explaining variation.

• Dell HymesRelated: The concept anchors Hymes’s account of how communities organize communicative norms.

• DialectologyRelated: Shared community norms help explain which speech forms carry local meaning.

• Language variationRelated: Shared norms help explain which variants are accepted or marked within a community.

• SociolectRelated: Shared norms help stabilize features associated with a sociolect.

• Language and genderNarrower topic: Shared norms shape which ways of speaking count as gender-appropriate.

• Anthropological linguisticsRelated: The concept identifies social groups through shared communicative expectations.