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Avineri, Netta Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation develops a theoretical and empirical framework for the model of metalinguistic community, a community of positioned social actors engaged primarily in discourse about language and cultural symbols tied to language. Building upon the notions of speech community (Duranti, 1994; Gumperz, 1968; Morgan, 2004), linguistic community…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Familiarity, Jews, Socialization
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Li, Yongyan – Journal of Second Language Writing, 2006
Despite the rich literature on disciplinary knowledge construction and multilingual scholars' academic literacy practices, little is known about how novice scholars are engaged in knowledge construction in negotiation with various target discourse communities. In this case study, with a focused analysis of a Chinese computer science doctoral…
Descriptors: Discourse Communities, Knowledge Level, Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs