Mixing genres and reinforcing community ties in nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Communities of practice as a locus of language change 1
5. I. Letter writers
6. The role of communities of practice in the emergence of Scottish Standard English 19
7. Mixing genres and reinforcing community ties in nineteenth-century Scottish correspondence 47
8. Communities of practice, idiolects, and community grammar 61
9. Community or communities of practice? 83
10. II. Scribes and printers
11. Crafting text languages 105
12. Typographical and graphomorphemic features of five editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes as elements of the early printers’ community of practice 123
13. Printing houses as communities of practice 151
14. Elizabeth Montagu’s Shakespeare essay (1769) 177
15. III. Professionals
16. Of ledenum bocum to engliscum gereorde 201
17. How a community of practice creates a text community 225
18. “These two, Physitians and Chirurgeons, are to be intimate friends together” 251
19. The formation of the Royal Society as a community of practice and discourse 269
20. Index of names 287
21. Index of subjects 289