Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Speech Community
- Sociolinguistics
- Flexible and abstract: not necessarily
corresponds with political boundaries,
religions or cultures. They are groups
that share at least one language or
variety (job, age, gender...)
- General
linguistics
- People that share the same
language or dialect in a specific
setting that can be close (city,
neighbourhood, country...)
- Does not need to be monolingual
- Major types
- Diglossic
- 2 languages or varieties are functionally complementary: formal
and colloquial contexts. Often interwined with bilingualism.
- Multilingual
- More than 2 official languages, although one is
taken as "official" for practical purposes
- Bilingual
- Two languages with official status
where there would be monolingual
or bilingual zones
- Monolingual
- One official language (could be
different dialects, registers or styles)