Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions / Ben Rampton and Constadina Charalambous.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rampton, Ben, 1953- author.

Charalambous, Constadina, author.

Series:

Encounters (Bristol, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropological linguistics.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Multilingual Matters, 2022.

Summary:

This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ahead.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Transcription Conventions

1. Introduction: Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions

Part 1: Sociolinguistic Frameworks Tuned to Social Change

2. Interactional Sociolinguistics

3. Linguistic Ethnography

4. Sociolinguistic Citizenship

Part 2: Ethnicity, Race and Class in Micro-practices of Diff erentiation and Alignment

5. Ethnicities without Guarantees

6. Style Contrasts, Migration and Social Class

7. From ‘Youth Language’ to Contemporary Urban Vernaculars

8. Styling in a Language Learnt Later in Life

Part 3: Everyday (In)securitisation

9. Sociolinguistics and Everyday (In)securitisation

10. Crossing of a Different Kind

11. Goff man and the Everyday Experience of Surveillance

Afterword. Jan Blommaert and the Uses of Sociolinguistics: Critical, Political, Personal

Bibliography

Author Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 28, 2022).

ISBN:

9781800410008

180041000X

OCLC:

1289300533