Linguistic community
The language community is not defined uniformly. According to the Duden , it is formed by the "totality of all native speakers of a language". In general linguistics , a group is known as a language community that is in social contact and uses a certain common language. Under certain circumstances, an individual language ( sociolect ) can be found, further developed and maintained within a small social group , thereby constituting a language community. Likewise, within a small area even if only different language groups can (for example, speakers of different dialects ) coexist, the common language the respective default language or a common transport language is.
The prerequisite for understanding within a language community is the shared structure of a living language system and a language use whose meaning is known to all speakers.
Examples of international language communities are the Francophonie of the French speakers and the Lusophonie of the speakers of Portuguese. Sometimes the political communities in Belgium are also referred to as language communities. These are member states of the Belgian federal state. In the language law of the trilingual Swiss canton of Graubünden , German-speaking , Italian -speaking and Rhaeto-Romanic are referred to as language communities.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden: German Universal Dictionary. 6th edition. Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim 2006, ISBN 3-411-05506-5 .
- ↑ Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.): Lexicon of Linguistics. 3rd updated and expanded edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-520-45203-0 .
- ↑ Michael Hoffmann: Functional varieties of German - in short . Universitäts-Verlag, Potsdam 2007, ISBN 978-3-939469-74-2 .