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Publication details [#14893]

Bucholtz, Mary. 1999. "Why be normal?": Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls. Language in Society 28 (2) : 203–223.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
community of practice | discourse analysis | gender | identity negotiation | social constructivism | speech community
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
0047-4045
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article illustrates the research potential of practice theory (including the concept of community of practice) in sociolinguistics, especially with respect to the study of social identities. Case in point is the gendered language use of a group of American female nerds in high school.