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In-group marker going out: Meaning-making in a community of practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2016

Anna Strycharz-Banaś
Anna Strycharz-Banaś*
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Warsztat Innowacji Społecznych (NGO), Poland
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Address for correspondence: Anna Strycharz-Banaś, Warsztat Innowacji Społecznych (NGO), Ul. Halszki 15/21, 30-611 Kraków, Poland[email protected]
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Abstract

This study examines the linguistic aspects of the formation of a community of practice (CofP) and analyses one aspect of the common repertoire that is being actively developed within the community. On the one hand, it looks at the community itself, placing emphasis on the exact practices, beliefs, and resources that can identify a group brought together at times against their will, as a CofP. On the other, this research takes under scrutiny one specific linguistic variable (Japanese negation) to show how involvement in a CofP can bring about rapid and unexpected changes in the meaning and use of a linguistic variant. (Community of practice, indexical meaning, Japanese, negation)*

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Language in Society , Volume 45 , Issue 5 , November 2016 , pp. 665 - 684
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