Language in late modernity : interaction in an urban school / Ben Rampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rampton, Ben, 1953- author.

Series:

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 22.

Studies in interactional sociolinguistics ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

High school students--Language.

High school students.

Language and education.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 443 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

1. Late modern language, interaction and schooling

2. Talk in class at central high

3. Popular culture in the classroom

4. Deutsch in improvised performance

5. Ritual in the instruction and inversion of German

6. Language and class I : theoretical orientations

7. Language and class II : empirical preliminaries

8. Schooling, class and stylisation

9. Classed subjectivities in interaction

10. Reflections on generalisation, theory and knowledge construction.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [410]-434) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-17433-3

0-521-01197-3

1-281-71737-1

9786611717377

0-511-40967-2

0-511-40834-X

0-511-40757-2

0-511-48672-3

0-511-40915-X

OCLC:

244632733