Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters

Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo

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Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters

dc.contributor.author	Conde Silvestre, Juan Camilo
dc.contributor.department	Filología Inglesa
dc.contributor.other	Facultades de la UMU::Facultad de Letras
dc.coverage.spatial	Inglaterra
dc.coverage.temporal	Siglo XV
dc.date.accessioned	2025-12-17T09:56:29Z
dc.date.available	2025-12-17T09:56:29Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Munich/Boston
dc.date.created	2019-10-01
dc.date.issued	2020-09-07
dc.description.abstract	The analytical construct known as community of practice—a group of people linked by the pursuit of a joint enterprise and sharing a repertoire of resources with this purpose—is extensively used in present-day sociolinguistic research on the diffusion of variation in connection with identity and social meaning construction and as part of a common, locally-constructed style. Communities of practice are also crucial in the diffusion of standard or non-standard practices and I believe that this tenet—which certainly holds for the present—could also be extended to the past, adding a new dimension to the historical study of standardisation. In this paper, I intend to reconstruct one fifteenth-century community of practice on the evidence afforded by the late Middle English collection of correspondence known as the Stonor letters. I will analyse the linguistic resources that members of this community of practice shared and I will particularly study spelling focusing as shown in reduced frequencies of spelling variants in their letters when compared to orthography in the letters issued by non-members. I believe that this perspective can help understand historical proto-standardisation in a new light, associating it to processes of identity construction.
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dc.identifier.citation	Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre (2020). “Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters”. In: The Multilingual Origins of Standard English (ed. Laura Wright). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 443-466
dc.identifier.doi	10.1515/9783110687545-016
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-11-068751-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/180711
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Walter de Gruyter
dc.relation	Fundacion Seneca. Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia. Convocatoria de ayudas para la realización de proyectos de investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, 2014, proyecto 19331/PHCS/14.
dc.relation.ispartof	The multilingual origins of standard English
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dc.subject	Communities of practice
dc.subject	Standardisation
dc.subject	Late Middle English correspondence
dc.subject	English historical sociolinguistics
dc.subject.ods	Objetivo 4: Educación
dc.title	Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters
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