Sociolinguistics is primarily concerned with the social significance of language （ ）and language use in different speech communities.

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Sociolinguistics is the subdiscipline of linguistics that studies language in social c.

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​One goal of sociolinguistics is to explore the nature of language v

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​One goal of sociolinguistics is to explore the nature of language v

A speech community is a group of people who form a community, which may have as few members as a family or as many members as a （）, and share the same language or a particular variety of language.

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speech community

A s community is one group, all of whose members share the （）language or at least a single language variety.

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In sociolinguistics, speech community refers to a group of speakers who constitute a community and share the same language or a particular variety of language. Speakers of English in general might be treated as such a community.

A （）community is a group of people or a set of speakers, who form a community, and who shares the same language or a particular variety of language, for example. the American Black community.

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speech community

The important characteristic of a speech community is that the members of the group must, in some reasonable way, interact（ ）with other members of the community.

Speech （）refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or group of speakers. 

Sociolinguists are particularly interested in three types of speech variety, or dialects, namely, regional dialects, social dialects, and（ ）.

Sociolinguists are particularly interested in three types of speech variety, or dialects, namely, r dialects, social dialects, and registers.

Different functional speech varieties known as（ ）are expected in, say a church sermon, a diplomatic encounter, a family dinner, or a sports broadcast.

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speech variety

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speech variety

Explain the following terms and give examples for illustration where appropriate.

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speech variety

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​A pidginized dialect may expand and eventually become the native language of a certain population known as c