Bengali speech community

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Bengali Speech Community
Name:
Id:
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LIST OF CONTENTS
 Speech Community
 Linguistic Boundaries
 Varieties of bengali language
 Communities of practice

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Speech Community
• is the type of group that
sociolinguists have typically
aimed to establish.
• an "ideal" speech
community for purely
theoretical reasons
• may also belong to other
groups and may or may not
even meet face-to-face

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Linguistic Boundaries
 some linguists have hypothesized the existence
of an ‘ideal’ speech community
 Chomsky proposes, his ‘completely
homogeneous speech-community
 is a theoretical construct employed for a narrow
purpose

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Varieties of Bengali Language
 difference between colloquial varieties and
regional varieties
 regional differences are dialects of standard
Bangla
 colloquial difference remains just as a spoken
variety

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Communities of practice
 depends on the speaker’s background
 education purpose
 Government work purpose
 Official work purpose

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