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Publication details [#60396]

Chrisomalis, Stephen. 2015. What's so improper about fractions? Prescriptivism and language socialization at Math Corps. Language in Society 44 (1) : 63–85.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | community of practice | language use | mathematics | prescribing

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Math Corps, a Detroit community of practice uses classroom prescriptive language to both underline propitious algorithms and to construct social solidarity. A frisky linguistic frame contains social, moral, linguistic, and mathematical practices and norms.