Researching urban youth language and identity

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    • Drummond, Rob

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Researching urban youth language and identity

Rob Drummond

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

  • : [hbk.]

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction. Chapter 2: The research context. Chapter 3: Our roles and identities. Chapter 4: Methods.Chapter 5: A Year in the life of the PRU.Chapter 6: Manchester Youth Language.- Chapter 7: TH-stopping, ethnicity, and grime.- Chapter 8: Giving back.- Chapter 9: Final thoughts.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB27716795
  • ISBN
    • 9783319734613
  • Country Code
    sz
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cham
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 286 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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