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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)