Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity
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Beschreibung
Provides an account of sociolinguistic practice amongst urban adolescents Focuses on the use of linguistic variation as a meaning-making tool in the enactment of identity Explores the extent to which a Multicultural Urban British English might be emerging Combines methods and analyses from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics with ethnography
Autor*in
Rob Drummond
Themen in »Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity«
Learning Centres behavioural difficulties Pupil Referral Unit identity creation language and ethnicity semiotics sociolinguistic variation urban adolescent speech dialect linguistic ethnography grime Multicultural Urban British English Multicultural London English Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) Manchester
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“This collaborative piece of research raises awareness of the value of nonstandard language and informs policymakers and commentators, which will hopefully help mitigate social bias and inequality. It also has implications for future studies, both empirically and theoretically, by offering an elaborate account of conducting fieldwork as well as combining different research traditions. This book is especially helpful to those who will conduct school-based ethnography.” (Gloria Yan Dou, Language in Society, Vol. 49 (3), 2020)
“Drummond’s writing will be accessible to a wide range of readers, including students and those with no background in sociolinguistic research. … Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity offers a thoughtful, reflective, and unusually honest account of doing fieldwork in a challenging context. It is engaging, highly readable, and will certainly be of use toanyone considering linguistic ethnography – of any type – in the future.” (Lucy Jones, Journal of Linguistics, June 14, 2019)
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“This book is a gem. It gives rare insights into the lives and language of young people in non-mainstream learning centres, treated with the respect and admiration that Drummond shows us they clearly deserve. But it does far more than this. It portrays the roller coaster ride of a successful interdisciplinary research project, from start to finish, with all the trials and excitement encountered along the way. This engagingly written personal account will be hugely important for linguists, teachers, policy makers and anyone interested in urban youth language, and inspirational and essential reading for both new and experienced researchers.” (Jenny Cheshire FBA, Professor of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
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