Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- 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
- youth language
- urban street style
- ethnography
- sociology of adolescence
- childhood
About this book
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.
Reviews
“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)
“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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity
Authors: Rob Drummond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73462-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73461-3Published: 03 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08792-0Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73462-0Published: 16 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 286
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Language Change, Linguistic Anthropology, Language Education, Slang and Jargon, Ethnography