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

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TextSeries: Pragmatics & beyond ; 235.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2013Description: 1 online resource (vi, 291 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9789027271204
9027271208
9789027256409
9027256403
1299910440
9781299910447

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communities of practice in the history of EnglishDDC classification:

420.9 23

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PE1074.75 .C66 2013eb

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Contents:

Part I. Letter writers -- part II. Scribes and printers -- part III. Professionals.

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.

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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.

Part I. Letter writers -- part II. Scribes and printers -- part III. Professionals.

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