Publications

Publication details [#14891]

Holmes, Janet and Miriam Meyerhoff. 1999. The Community of Practice: Theories and methodologies in language and gender research. Language in Society 28 (2) : 173–183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

community of practice | discourse analysis | ethnography | gender | speech community

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

An introduction to a special journal issue on the concept of Community of Practice (CofP) as compared with other sociolinguistic and social psychological frameworks, such as social identity theory, speech community, social network and social constructionist approaches.