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Speech Communities and Speech Sponsors
By: Dhaval Patel
Julie Ann
Main idea
Different Speech Communities and Their Sponsors Make UNCC Diverse
How?
This picture above is a family, they represent our home and where our very first speech community formed. Our family are the ones who help us with our speech and help us develop it. Mother tongue is great example of how our family shapes our speech they are very first and most influential speech sponsors.
The picture of the school represents the place where we began to choose our own speech community and create our own identity. Our teachers act as our sponsors, they help and guide us to better our speech, our peers also act as sponsors, but they paly a larger role in helping us choose what speech community we want to belong to.
Different speech communities at UNCC
Frats/sorority
Faculty and staff
Athletes
Cultural
Religious/Spiritual
Majors/ learning communities
Stats Of Cultural Speech Communities
African American
14% of UNCC Campus
Hispanic
2.9% of UNCC Campus
Native American
< 1% of UNCC Campus
Asian
3% of UNCC Campus
Theses statistics allows us to see the diversity of this campus which then allows us to see the broad difference of speech communities that exist on and off campus.
Speech community sponsors
Parents
Teachers
Classmates
Friends
Roommates
Co-workers
These seem to be our main speech sponsors, because we have a great amount of interaction with them on a day to day basis. The more time we spend with them, the more we start to sound like them.
Regional Background
Location of people who came to the University of North Carolina Charlotte
People move from different states and leave there speech communities, to form new ones, which can be influenced by your new friends, roommates and even teachers. Our sponsors Influence our speech, but as we move around we find new sponsors and join new communities.
Mother Tongue
Mother tongue is basically our natural way of speaking, it is the bases of our identity.
Forms of mother tongue could be the way words are pronounced, or if you talk with a particular accent, or if you mix up your words when making sentences.
Example of mother tongue
“ I made a party” vs. ” I had a party”