2 - Discourse and Society-1
2 - Discourse and Society-1
2 - Discourse and Society-1
Discourse Community
A discourse community is a group of
people who share some kind of
activity such as members of a club or
association who have regular
meeting, or a group of students who
go to classes at the same university.
Member of a discourse community
have particular ways of
communicating with each other.
Speech Community
A speech community in general linguistics
refers to any group of people that speak
the same language and also the variety of
the language. However, it is not essential
that all the members of the speech
community know and use all of these
languages and language varieties. They
will recognize the conditions under which
other members of the community believe
it is appropriate to use each of them.
For example:
In a city such as Surabaya, people will
know and use standard Indonesian. But,
people who were born and grew up in
Surabaya most likely know and speak
Javanese also. And as members of this
speech community, we know when and
where to use Javanese. In some settings
such as at the school, speaking to the
teacher, Indonesian may be more
appropriate. But when we speaking to
our friends, Javanese is appropriate.