In the paper “Why be normal?”: Language and identity practices in a community of nerd girls”, Bucholtz speaks about linguistics, speech community, and defines some terms related to linguistics, such as; practice theory, habitus, ethnography, and positive identity practices and negative identity practices. As Bucholtz discusses school students, she focuses on three main groups including; “the Jocks (overachieving students who oriented to middle-class values) and the Burnouts (underachieving students who were bound for work, rather than college, at the end of their high-school careers)” , and the nerds (“the opposite of both the jocks and the burnouts”). All three of the groups are trying to fit into the “cool” group, however it seems as though
