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What "speech communities" or "networks" do you find in your school (or some sub-set thereof), workplace, or place of residence (choose one)? Select one to describe in detail.
a. Think about how you should divide the community into linguistically similar subgroups, based on social relations among the members.
b. What criteria would you use?
c. Design a calculate of network and/or community membership that is not linguistic, but that would allow you to show the network/community memberships in the community that you described.
d. Give some examples (use made up or real people in the community) to show how you would apply your measure.