| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| SPEECH COMMUNITY, LANGUAGE COMMUNITY |
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| These terms refer to any constituency whose intragroup relationships and common experiences form their speech into a dialect or subdialect. Such dialects may be regionally or socially distinctive, or both. A large metropolitan city is a speech community in itself, and it contains many smaller speech communities (even down to single families) and in turn is part of a still larger speech community, such as a region or a nation. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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