Speech Communities
Speech Communities One that has fascinated me is just how differently people of the same language really speak. Even though everyone in this class speaks English, we speak it uniquely from each other. We all grew up in different speech communities , different communities that share expectations and some rules about language use. However, these communities all sound different For example, an example I like to use my speech community of Northern California. We use words like "like" and "totally" quite a bit in regular life and I still catch myself saying "like", like, totally way too much man. Another difference is that when we talk in Nor Cal, generally, the way we sound when we talk is more relaxed. We also have terms that baffle people from other places. A Wyoming example is "That's a whole other can 'o' worms", this is never said where I am from, and it confused me when I heard it for the first time here. However, I would say ...