LINGUIST List 17.967

Fri Mar 31 2006

Books: Sociolinguistics: Rampton

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Directory         1.    Joyce Reid, Language in Late Modernity: Rampton

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Message 1: Language in Late Modernity: Rampton
Date: 28-Mar-2006
From: Joyce Reid <jreidcup.org>
Subject: Language in Late Modernity: Rampton


Title: Language in Late Modernity Subtitle: Interaction in an Urban School Series Title: Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 22 Published: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Author: Ben Rampton Hardback: ISBN: 0521812631 Pages: 464 Price: U.K. £ 55.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521812631 Pages: 464 Price: U.S. $ 95.00
Abstract:

The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with oneanother and their teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern(contemporary) society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton presents theextensive sociolinguistic research he carried out in an inner-city highschool. Through his vivid analysis of classroom talk, he offers answers tosome important contemporary questions: does social class still count foryoung people, or is it in demise? Are traditional authority relationshipsin schools being undermined? How is this affected by popular media culture?His study, which provides numerous transcripts and three extensive casestudies, introduces a new way of perceiving established ideas insociolinguistics, such as identity, insecurity, the orderliness ofclassroom talk, and the experience of learning at school. In doing so,Rampton shows how work in sociolinguistics can contribute to some majorcurrent debates in sociology, anthropology, cultural studies and education.

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.


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): German, Standard (deu)
Written In: English (eng )

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