Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

Drummond, Rob

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.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-04-03

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319734613

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73462-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 286