Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-73461-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Drummond, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Ethnolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Dialektologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Drummond is Reader in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and Head of Youth Language at the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, UK.