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3 Defining Groups
KEY TOPICS
How to define a speech community – regions, users, and norms
How to define a community of practice – interactions
Social network features and configuration
Social identity and group membership
How beliefs about groups of speakers and their languages shape how we speak
Language is both an individual phenomenon and a societal phenomenon. We look at the language of individuals and take into account their personal experiences, attitudes, and motivations for using language in different ways. But these individuals do not live in a vacuum, they are members of social groups, communities, cultures, and societies, so we are also concerned with how language use is influenced by membership in social groups. The material we cover in this chapter revolves around the underlying question of, how can we define and demarcate social groups? There are two broad aspects to this; what is meaningful for language
