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A final aspect of the delimiting of speech communities to
consider in Labov's work is that
The term _community_ assumes something held in common.
The heterogeneity that the speech community shows in
speech production is matched by a relative homogeneity
in norms of interpretation. These may be norms of
social evaluation or semantic interpretation: both rest
on shared linguistic knowledge. (Labov, "Is there a
Creole Speech Community?," in Valdman and Highfield,
369)