Events

Speaker: Brian W. King, School of English, HKU Time: 3.30pm, 25th April 2019 Place: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU Title: Variationist Sociolinguistics and the Community of Practice model: Surfing the ‘third wave’ Abstract:  The first ‘language’ researchers to engage extensively with the Community of Practice model (CofP) were working in the variationist sector of sociolinguistics (e.g. Eckert, Mendoza-Denton, and others). When I specify extensively, I am pointing to their detailed and early work on the principled use of the theory and the meticulous identification of communities of practice, both of which emerged soon after Lave and Wenger’s seminal […]