21. Thus, it is within communities of practice that linguistic influence may spread within and among speech communities ." 22. Members of speech communities will often develop slang or jargon to serve the group's special purposes and priorities. 23. His speaking Hopi when talking of Hopi-related matters is a conversational norm in the Arizona Tewa speech community . 24. Membership in speech communities is often assumed based on stereotypes about the community as defined by non-linguistic factors. 25. Consequently, the speech community increased as well and Minderico became to be seen as a unifying identity element. 26. In these analyses, speech communities are constituted in local and continuous performances of cultural and moral matters ." 27. The gender imbalance led to increased intermarriage between Indian women and Black or White men outside the speech community . 28. The minority languages have been legally recognized to protect the cultural and historical heritage of their respective speech communities . 29. Most Native Americans consider the in-group term, which could still be offensive if used outside of that speech community . 30. Discourse analysis further examines the structure of texts and conversations emerging out of a speech community 's usage of language.