ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how commonplaces are used by a group within a local community that is taking action to protect its own environment. It demonstrates how those commonplaces are shaped in response to the identity and relationship building relevant to a given context. The chapter explains Gee's method of critical discourse analysis in more detail, showing its connection to the commonplaces and its particular relevance to the context. It also offers an analysis of four sets of discourses and activities: traditional print-based documents that the group uses to define itself and its activities, including the original grant and its purpose and vision statement; its typical social and discursive actions, including meetings and wildlife walks; letters to public officials and documents aimed at a larger public; and and in most detail, its Facebook activities throughout an eighteen-month period.
