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Title Communities of practice in the history of English / edited by Joanna Kopaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), Andreas H. Jucker (University of Zurich).
Publisher Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Copyright ©2013

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Description vi, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
ISBN 9789027256409 hardback : alkaline paper
9027256403 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Communities of practice as a locus of language change / Andreas H. Jucker and Joanna Kopaczyk -- Part I. Letter writers -- The role of communities of practice in the emergence of Scottish Standard English / Janet Cruickshank -- Mixing genres and reinforcing community ties in nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence : formality, familiarity and religious discourse / Marina Dossena -- Communities of practice, idiolects, and community grammar : Variation in the past tense be paradigms in the Civil War letters from Northwestern South Carolina / Radoslaw Dylewski -- Community or communities of practice? : 1820 petitioners in the Cape Colony / Matylda Włodarczyk -- Part II. Scribes and printers -- Crafting text languages : spelling systems in manuscripts of the "Man of Law's Tale" as a means of construing scribal community of practice / Justyna Rogos -- Typographical and graphomorphemic features of five editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes as elements of the early printers' community of practice / Hanna Rutkowska -- Printing houses as communities of practice : Orthography in early modern medical books / Jukka Tyrkkö -- Elizabeth Montagu's Shakespeare essay (1769) : the final draft and the first edition as evidence of two communities of practice / Anni Sairio -- Part III. Professionals -- Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde : Bilingual communities of practice in Anglo-Saxon England / Olga Timofeeva -- How a community of practice creates a text community : Middle Scots legal and administrative discourse / Joanna Kopaczyk -- "These two, Physitians and Chirurgeons, are to be intimate friends together" : early modern English community of medical practitioners / Anna Hebda and Małgorzata Fabiszak -- The formation of the Royal Society as a community of practice and discourse / Maurizio Gotti.
Series Pragmatics & beyond ; 235.
Library Class English D74
Subject English language -- Social aspects -- History.
English language -- Variation -- History.
Linguistic change -- History.
Languages in contact -- History.
English language -- History.
Other Author Kopaczyk, Joanna, editor.
Jucker, Andreas H., editor.

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