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Publication details [#58707]

King, Brian. 2014. Tracing the emergence of a community of practice: Beyond presupposition in sociolinguistic research. Language in Society 43 (1) : 61–81.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | community of practice | discourse analysis | education | sociolinguistics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article uses Wenger's (1998:130–31) representative features, to explore the language-driven formative elements of a classroom-based community of practice (CoP). Distinguishing localised practices enhances the chance that discourse analytic findings can be helpful to educators.