Communities of Practice and Incipient Standardization in Middle English Written Culture

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ID8863764
AuthorsColette Moore (0000-0001-5057-5564, University of Washington, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume100
Issue2
Pages117-132
Publication date2019-02-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnglish Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-838X • E-ISSN: 1744-4217
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0013838x.2019.1566848
OpenAlexW2932128386
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited42

The model of the community of practice is a recent theoretical approach in the field of sociolinguistics that is beginning to be applied to historical English language studies. This methodological investigation pursues the applicability of community-of-practice frameworks to networks of scribes and textwriters in late Middle English. The analysis then moves on to consider the relevance of the model for early processes of standardisation in English. Relating sociolinguistics and manuscript studies, this research suggests that the emergence of incipient standards in late Middle English occurs as part of the development of shared repertoire for communities of writers

Art · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Literature · Middle English · Political science · Relevance (law · Repertoire · Sociolinguistics · Sociology · Standardization · Gender Studies in Language · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · History · Philosophy

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