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Unlike American sociolinguists (e.g., Labov’s speech community based on shared norms), Calvet defines a linguistic community as: alm-alajtmaa-allghwy-lwys-jan-kalfy-pdf

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Or if referencing the original French: كلفي، ل. ج. (1993). اللسانيات الاجتماعية . باريس: مطبعات الجامعة الفرنسية. Search in Arabic using quotation marks

كلفي، لويس جان. (1993). علم اللغة الاجتماعي . ترجمة (اسم المترجم). دار الطوبقال، الدار البيضاء. (إذا كانت الترجمة متوفرة)

Calvet famously used the metaphor of (from physics) to describe linguistic communities: a dominant language (like French in Paris, or Standard Arabic in Cairo) acts as a black hole attracting speakers from peripheral languages (e.g., Berber, dialects, immigrant languages). (1993)

“A group of people who share not necessarily the same language, but a common set of linguistic representations and practices, often organized around a dominant language in a given social formation.”