Communities of Practice in the History of English

Name: Communities of Practice in the History of English
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Communities of Practice in the History of English
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Communities of practice as a locus of language change
1. Introduction
2. Community frameworks in (historical) linguistics
3. Communities of practice in historical linguistics
4. Chapter overview
4.1 Letter writers
4.2 Scribes and printers
4.3 Professionals
Notes
References
I. Letter writers
The role of communities of practice in the emergence of Scottish Standard English
1. Introduction
2. The prestige language in eighteenth century Scotland
3. The Select Society of Edinburgh
4. The lists of Scotticisms
5. Lord Fife and his factors
6. The Fife-Rose Corpus
7. Fife's background
8. Scotticisms in the Fife-Rose Corpus
9. Topic-driven use of Scotticisms
10. Fife's bilingualism
11. Fife's pragmatic use of Scots
12. Fife's language and the emergence of Scottish Standard English
Notes
References
Mixing genres and reinforcing community ties in nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence
1. Introduction and corpus description
1.1 Register and dialect in personal letters
2. Religious references in familiar letters
2.1 Crystallized expressions in opening and closing formulae
2.2 Religious references in the body of the letter
3. Religious references in business letters
4. Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Appendix
Communities of practice, idiolects, and community grammar
1. Introductory remarks
2. Corpus structure
3. Background information
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Distribution of was and were as dependent on subject type
4.2 Communities of practice, individual and community grammar(s)
5. Community grammar and conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Community or communities of practice? 1820 petitioners in the Cape Colony
1. Introduction
1.1 Data
1.2 Outline
2. Mr. John Bold's written requests
3. Petitioning as an everyday practice
3.1 Genre
3.2 Genre shifts and self-presentation
4. Community of practice
4.1 Periphery and core: experts and learners
4.2 Two communities?
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
II. Scribes and printers
Crafting text languages: Spelling systems in manuscripts of the "Man of Law's Tale
1. Setting the scene: The community of book artisans in medieval London
2. Community within a community: Middle English scribes
3. Communio scriptorum as a community of practice
4. Individuality in community: Scribal responses to exemplar copies
5. The community of the "Man of Law's Tale" scribes
6. Negotiating the meaning of the littera: Potestatic representations in MLT MSS
6.1 Litterae representing potestas /?/
6.2 Litterae representing potestas /x/
7. What's in a symbol? Abbreviations in the MLT MSS
7.1 Superscript 'i'
7.2 Brevigraph &9&
8. Conclusion: Crafting text languages as a means of establishing community of practice
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Typographical and graphomorphemic features of five editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes
1. Introduction
2. Community of practice: Theoretical assumptions
3. Early modern printers as a community of practice
4. The Kalender of Shepherdes: Printers' joint enterprise and shared repertoire
4.1 Collaborative relationships among the printers
4.2 Typographical features in the KS editions as part of printers' shared repertoire of resources
4.3 Abbreviations as printers' typographical tool for line justification
5. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Appendix
Printing houses as communities of practice: Orthography in early modern medical books
1. Introduction
2. Background: Communities of practice
2.1 Early modern medical writers
2.2 Early modern printers
3. Orthographic standardization and printing
4. Data
4.1 Spelling and annotation in EMEMT
4.2 VARDing
5. Findings
5.1 Pre-standard spellings
5.2 Brevigraphs and macrons
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Elizabeth Montagu's Shakespeare essay (1769): The final draft and the first edition
1. Introduction
2. Two communities of practice
2.1 Elizabeth Montagu and the essay
2.2 The first edition and printing house practices
3. The draft of the essay
4. Linguistic variation between the draft and the edition
4.1 Spelling
4.2 Punctuation
4.3 Capitalization
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
III. Professionals
Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde: Bilingual communities of practice in Anglo-Saxon England
1. Introduction
2. Dictionary evidence and previous research
3. Corpus evidence
3.1 Anglo-Latin
3.2 Old English
4. Conclusions and suggestions
Notes
References
Appendix 1
How a community of practice creates text community: Middle Scots legal and administrative discourse
1. Setting the context
2. Notaries and clerks as a community of practice
3. Tracing fixed patterns in Middle Scots legal and administrative texts
4. Medieval Scottish burghs as text communities
5. Accessing the text community through lexical bundles
5.1 The authorities and the community
5.2 Collective reference
5.3 Heirs and will executors
5.4 Named individuals
5.5 Other individuals
6. Conclusions
Notes
References
Early Modern English community of medical practitioners
1. Introduction
2. Communities of Practice as a framework for historical research
3. Communities of Practice and their written legacy
4. The theory of four humors by Galen
5. Corpus linguistic analysis of the language of physicians and surgeons
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
The formation of the Royal Society as a community of practice and discourse
1. Introduction
2. The Royal Society as a community of practice
2.1 Composition
2.2 Network
3. The Royal Society as a community of discourse
3.1 Linguistic conventions
3.2 Stylistic conventions
3.3 Generic conventions
4. Conclusions
Notes
References
Index of names
Index of subjects

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