Speech Communities

The concept that I chose to write about this week was speech communities.  We are raised within these communities beginning at a young age.  In the end we choose what communities we want to be in, and with our choice comes how we relate to speaking in that community.  To further go into detail about speech communities is how our gender can help choose what kind of community we place ourselves in.  Depending how we're raised as children helps enlighten our choice.  This can be defined as Gender Speech Communication.  For example, I was raised in a family that has a history of military members and sports affiliation.  Because of these affiliations I placed myself in a setting that had me playing baseball, football, and joining a military program called the U.S. Naval Sea Cadets.  Within all these activities I was taught teamwork, discipline, leadership, and motivation as some examples of what I learned.  Being brought up with these came along the mindset of working as a team and relying on one another rather than being an individual.  Speech communities varies from person to person, and everyone has their own choice of what community to be in.  Once we choose we make friendships with people that are also in the same community.  With extra help from others in the same community that we place ourselves in we create who we are growing up, and what future speech communities we decide to associate with.