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5.1 Analyzing discourse - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Lyons’ definition- involves delimiting dialects and languages. Implicit assumption of a monolingual community.
      - Hymes’ definition takes account of shared cultural norms
      - Fishman’s definition takes account of multilingual individuals and requires only one shared variety to define the community; it also takes into account shared social rules for using that variety.
      - Gumperz’ definition includes the possibility of multilingual speech communities and, distinctively, uses density of social interaction as a criterion for delimiting the community.
      - Labov’s definition is unusual in using shared evaluative norms about speech as the distinguishing feature of a speech community- reflected in speech usage patterns.