Language, Communities, Networks and Practices

Clinical Sociolinguistics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-14

  Britain, David ^a   Matsumoto, Kazuko ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Community; Dialectology; Multiplexity; Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948769403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470754856.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

References (4)

1. Chambers, J., Trudgill, P., and Schilling-Estes, N. (eds) (2002) The Handbook of Language Variation and Change. Oxford: Blackwell. This includes chapters on speech communities, social networks and communities of practice.
2. Eckert, P. (2000) Linguistic Variation as Social Practice. Oxford: Blackwell. The model is here applied to sociolinguistic concerns.
3. Milroy, L. and Gordon, M. (2003) Sociolinguistics: Method and Interpretation. Oxford: Blackwell. This provides methodological and theoretical detail about social networks in sociolinguistics.
4. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. This offers an in-depth account of CofPs.