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Speech Communities

Speech Community is a social group united by the shared and systematically used linguistic norms, communicative practices, or language varieties that distinguish its members from other such groups within a given sociolinguistic environment.

317

Publications

24.6K

Citations

458

Authors

206

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

58

Variants

Speech Community

Parents

Children

Publications

317

<b>Language and social networks</b> . By Leslie Milroy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1980. Pp. xii, 218.

John Pride · Language · 1982 · 2.5K citations

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<b>A sociolinguistic description of Detroit Negro speech.</b> By Walter A. Wolfram. (Urban language series, 5.) Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1969. Pp. xviii, 237. $5.00.

Ronald K. S. Macaulay · Language · 1970 · 997 citations

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The Ethnography of Communication: An Introduction

Jill K. Welch, Muriel Saville‐Troike · Modern Language Journal · 1991 · 983 citations

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“Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls

Mary Bucholtz · Language in Society · 1999 · 795 citations · Full text

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<i>An introduction to sociolinguistics</i>

Peter Bakker · Language in Society · 2007 · 690 citations

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Authors

458

  1. DW
    Donald Winford

    The Ohio State University, United States

    3 publications · 225 citations

    3

    h-index

  2. BJ
    Barbara Johnstone

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    3 publications · 113 citations

    3

    h-index

  3. GR
    Gregory R. Guy

    New York University, United States

    3 publications · 120 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. MM
    Miriam Meyerhoff

    Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

    3 publications · 657 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. JJ
    John J. Gumperz

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    3 publications · 504 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 458

Institutions

206

  1. New York University

    New York, United States

    6 h-index

    7 publications

    296 citations

  2. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    260 citations

  3. California University of Pennsylvania

    California, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    225 citations

  4. University of Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    407 citations

  5. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    332 citations

  6. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

    Munich, Germany

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    491 citations

  7. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    516 citations

  8. North Carolina State University

    Raleigh, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    106 citations

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Venues

  1. American Speech

    21 publications · 618 citations

    16

    h-index

  2. Language in Society

    17 publications · 3.4K citations

    16

    h-index

  3. International Journal of the Sociology of Language

    IJSL · 13 publications · 322 citations

    13

    h-index

  4. Journal of Sociolinguistics

    11 publications · 1.4K citations

    11

    h-index

  5. Language

    11 publications · 4.4K citations

    11

    h-index

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