SPEECH COMMUNITY


Meaning of SPEECH COMMUNITY in English

Ling.

1. the aggregate of all the people who use a given language or dialect.

2. a group of people geographically distributed so that there is no break in intelligibility from place to place.

[ 1930-35 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .