Reference no: EM133798288 , Length: Words Count:750
Assignment:
For Critical Response Paper 1, you will write about the concept of speech communities, social networks, and communities of practice.
Requirements
Critical Response Paper 1 must be a minimum of 750 words not including references.
Using the required readings in sociolinguistics, define the following terms:
- Speech community
- Social network
- Community of practice
Your definitions must cite the required readings. If your definitions lack citations to Van Herk (2012), then you will receive 0 points for that portion of the assignment.
After defining the 3 terms above, find an online speech community and/or community of practice with which you are familiar. Then, explain what norms, conventions, practices define this speech community/community of practice. Note that you must prove that the speech interactions that you find online do reflect the interactions of a speech community. Not all online interactions take place in an established speech community, so you will need to offer evidence that the site and interactions you sample derive from a speech community or community of practice. This is an argument
Elements to consider:
- Specialized words or jargon that unite the community.
- Specialized norms, rules, or conventions that make interactions within the community acceptable or unacceptable.
- Topics that tend to anchor interactions.
Put another way, what knowledge and practices do insiders within the community have/do?