Language in Late Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics at Kings College London. Klappentext Provides a sociolinguistic account of classroom interaction, based on research in an inner-city high school. Zusammenfassung The study of teenagers' interaction in the classroom can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account! Ben Rampton presents his extensive sociolinguistic research in an inner-city high school! offering a fresh contribution to some major debates in sociology! anthropology! cultural studies and education. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I. Urban Classroom Discourse: 2. Talk in class at Central High; 3. Popular culture in the classroom; Part II. Performances of Deutsch: 4. Deutsch in improvised performance; 5. Ritual in the instruction and inversion of German; Part III. The Stylization of Social Class: 6. Language and class I: theoretical orientations; 7. Language and class II: empirical preliminaries; 8. Schooling, class and stylization; 9. Classed subjectives in interaction; Part IV. Methodological Reflections: 10. Reflections on generalization, theory and knowledge construction.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Rampton, Rampton Ben
• Assisted by: Paul Drew (Editor), Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.2008
• EAN: 9780521011976
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01197-6
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio; Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General