KAZAKH ABILAY KHAN UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND

WORLD LANGUAGES

THEME: PROFILE OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNITY

ALTYNBEKOVA F., SHUKIRLLA G.,ZHUSIP A., TUGAMBAEVA S.

Linguistic community

- is a social group which may be either mono-lingual or multilingual, held together by frequency of social interaction patterns and set off from the surrounding areas by weaknesses in the lines of communication. LC's may consist of small groups bound together by face-to-face contact or may cover large regions, depending on the level of abstraction we wish to achieve.

Exactly how to define speech community is debated in the literature. Definitions of speech community tend to involve varying degrees of emphasis on the following:

Shared community membership

• Shared linguistic communication

Early definitions have tended to see speech

communities as bounded and localized groups

of people who live together and come to share

the same linguistic norms because they

belong to the same local community. It has

also been assumed that within a community a

homogeneous set of norms should exist.

These assumptions have been challenged by later

scholarship that have demonstrated that individuals

generally participate in various speech communities

simultaneously and at different times in their lives each of

which has a different norms that they tend to share only

partially, communities may be de-localized and

unbounded rather than local, and they often comprise

different sub-communities with differing speech norms.

With the recognition of the fact that speakers actively use language to construct and manipulate social identities by signalling membership in particular speech communities, the idea of the bounded speech community with homogeneous speech norms has become largely abandoned for a model based on the speech community as a fluid community of practice.

A speech community

comes to share a specific

set of norms for language

use through living and

interacting together, and

speech communities may

therefore emerge among all

groups that interact

frequently and share certain

norms and ideologies.

Such groups can be villages, countries, political or professional communities, communities with shared interests, hobbies, or lifestyles, or even just groups of friends.

Speech communities may share both particular sets of vocabulary and grammatical conventions, as well as speech styles and genres, and also norms for how and when to speak in particular ways.

A speech community is a group of people who do not necessarily share the same language, but share a set of norms and rules for the use of language. A speech community is not necessarily co-extensive with a language community

Searches:

• http://orb.essex.ac.uk/lg/lg232/SpeechComDefs.html

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_community