Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents

ISBN-13: 9781138636583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 366 str.

Alastair Pennycook

Opis

Focusing on urban youth culture and language crossing, this foundational volume by Ben Rampton has played a pivotal role in the shaping of language and ethnic identity as a domain of study. It focuses on language crossing - the use of Panjabi by adolescents of African-Caribbean and Anglo descent, the use of Creole by adolescents with Panjabi and Anglo backgrounds, and the use of stylized Indian English. Crossing's central question is: how far and in what ways do these intricate processes of language sharing and exchange help to overcome race stratification and contribute to a new sense of mixed youth, class and neighbourhood community? Ben Rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data, and integrates the discussion of particular incidents with theories of discourse, code-switching, social movements, resistance and ritual drawn from sociolinguistics, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies. Now a Routledge Linguistics Classic and with a new preface which sets the work in its current context, this book remains key reading for all those working in the areas of applied linguistics and sociolinguistics.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements  Transcription Symbols and Conventions  Preface to the Routledge Linguistics Classics Edition  Part I: Introductory  Introduction  Local Reports of Language Crossing  Part II: Interaction with Adults: Contesting Stratification  Stylised Asian English (i)  Panjabi (i)  Creole (i)  Part III: Interaction with Peers: Negotiating Solidarity  Stylised Asian English (ii)  Panjabi (ii)  Creole (ii)  Part IV: Crossing and Performance Art  Creole and SAE (iii)  Panjabi (iii)  Part V: Conclusions  Crossing and the Sociolinguistics of Language Contact  Crossing, Discourse and Ideology  Educational Discourses on Language  Appendix I  Appendix II  Bibliography  Index  Figures  Numbered extracts, settings and main participants

O autorze

Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at King’s College London. He is author of Language and Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006), co-author of Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (Routledge, 1992), and co-editor of The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader (Routledge, 2003) and Language and Superdiversity (Routledge, 2016).