In:Communities of Practice in the History of English
Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk and Andreas H. Jucker
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 235] 2013
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Prefacevii
Communities of practice as a locus of language change
I. Letter writers
The role of communities of practice in the emergence of Scottish Standard English
Mixing genres and reinforcing community ties in nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence: Formality, familiarity and religious discourse
Communities of practice, idiolects, and community grammar: Variation in the past tensebe paradigms in the Civil War letters from Northeastern South Carolina
Community or communities of practice? 1820 petitioners in the Cape Colony
II. Scribes and printers
Crafting text languages: Spelling systems in manuscripts of theMan of Law’s Taleas a means of construing scribal community of practice
Typographical and graphomorphemic features of five editions of the Kalender of Shepherdesas elements of the early printers’ community of practice
Printing houses as communities of practice: Orthography in early modern medical books
Elizabeth Montagu’s Shakespeare essay (1769): The final draft and the first edition as evidence of two communities of practice
III. Professionals
Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde: Bilingual communities of practice in Anglo-Saxon England
How a community of practice creates a text community: Middle Scots legal and administrative discourse
“These two, Physitians and Chirurgeons, are to be intimate friends together”: Early Modern English community of medical practitioners
The formation of the Royal Society as a community of practice and discourse
Index of names
Index of subjects
