6 Propositions about Speech Codes Theory – Flashcards

Wherever there is a distinctive culture, there is a distinctive speech code

Multiple speech codes are deployed in any given speech community

Speech code involves a culturally distinct psychology, sociology and rhetoric; the way we speak reveals the way we live our lives

Significance of speaking depends on speech codes used by speakers/listeners to create and interpret communications; community determines communication

Terms/premises/rules of speech code are woven into speaking itself; analyze native speakers; Social drama and totemizing rituals

Shared speech code is sufficient condition for predicting, explaining, and controlling the form of discourse about intelligibility, prudecne and morality of communicative conduct; don't impose own on others' different speech codes