Do you agree with the ‘one language: one community’ theory? What other factors, apart from language, may determine one’s identification with a speech community?

A speech community is a group of people who share a set of linguistic norms and expectations regarding the use of language. It is a concept mostly associated with sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics.

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:

1.Shared community membership

2.Shared linguistic communication

They can be regional (geographical), ethnic (national and racial), and social (class, age, gender, socioeconomic status and education). All these factors are interconnected. They are reflected in every language variety's pronunciation, vocabulary, grammatical constructions and syntax.

A speech community is a group of people who partake rules for conducting and interpreting at least one variety of a language or shoptalk. The term can be applied to a neighborhood, a mega city, a region or a nation. We all belong to at least one speech community. The foremost speech community we belong to is the one we partake with our primary caregivers( generally our parents) and is the base for some of the most intimate and long term connections we form across our life. The rules and morals of this speech community show up in a shoptalk appertained to as the conversational, the most introductory variety or shoptalk of language we command. Our conversational speech is least susceptible to monitoring and least likely to change across our continuance. one language one community.

utmost of us were immersed in language from our first mindfulness of the world around us. Since babies can hear the sound of their mama ’s voice and the noises and relations in her terrain in the womb, we presumably hear our first sounds before we take our first breath. one language one community. Fairly beforehand in our development, we _____ ____ ____ ________ _________ _____ _______.
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