Boricua College
Instructional Module
Analysis of Relationships 4.20
Student: Antonio Ruiz
Facilitator: Emilio Suarez
Exercise III
This article was about "speech Communities". The definition of speech communities being simply a community that is based on language. Charles Hockett defined it better as a set of people who communicate with each other with the common language. An example in my view of a speech comunity would e "Hispanics" or the "Hispanic community; where the Spanish lamguge is most common.
Analysis of Elememnts
a) language
b) communities
c) communicatiom
Analysis of Relationships
When communities communicate in a common language such as the example given above; they are labled as speech communities.