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Title Communities of practice in the history of English / edited by Joanna Kopaczyk, Andreas H. Jucker.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013.
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Pragmatics & Beyond new series, 0922-842X ; v. 235
Pragmatics & beyond ; 235.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of communities of practice takes its starting point in the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger and refers to groups of people defined both through their membership in a community and through their shared practices. Three types of communities are particularly highlighted: networks of letter writers; grou.
Contents Part I. Letter writers -- part II. Scribes and printers -- part III. Professionals.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject English language -- Social aspects -- History.
English language -- Social aspects.
History.
English language -- Variation -- History.
English language -- Variation.
Linguistic change -- History.
Linguistic change.
English language -- History.
English language.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Kopaczyk, Joanna, editor.
Jucker, Andreas H., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Communities of practice in the history of English 9789027256409 (DLC) 2013027864 (OCoLC)854497746
ISBN 9789027271204 (electronic book)
9027271208 (electronic book)
9789027256409 (hardback)
9027256403 (hardback)
1299910440 (e-book)
9781299910447 (e-book)

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