Speech community
【正确答案】：The term speech community, also called linguistic community, is widely used by sociolinguists to refer to a community based on language. Speech community is viewed differently by different scholars. Though linguists define the term differently, they all seem to agree that people in the same speech community tend to share certain linguistic patterns or norms that can distinguish them from those of other communities. Therefore, we can define the term speech community simply as a group of people who share a set of language varieties and a set of norms for using them in their linguistic communication.
