Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity
This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.
| Autor: | Drummond, Rob |
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| ISBN: | 9783319734613 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 286 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 03.04.2018 |
| Schlagworte: | Learning Centres Pupil Referral Unit behavioural difficulties dialect identity creation language and ethnicity linguistic ethnography semiotics sociolinguistic variation urban adolescent speech |
Rob Drummond is Reader in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and Head of Youth Language at the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, UK.