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1 online resource |
| Summary |
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. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Intro; Preface; Contents; Transcription Conventions; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1: Introduction; 1.1 What This Book Is About; 1.2 Setting the Scene; The 'Pre-pilot'; The Pilot; 1.3 Aims and Research Questions; 1.4 Why Manchester?; 1.5 Why Is This Kind of Study Important?; 1.6 Beginning the Project; References; 2: The Research Context; 2.1 The PRU; 2.2 'Our' Centres; Key Staff; Daily Routine; The Young People; 2.3 PRU Identities; A Community of Practice?; Chavs; Identifiable Groups; Orientations; 2.4 Summary; References; 3: Our Roles and Identities; 3.1 Rob; 3.2 Susan. |
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3.3 Our Roles and Identities in the CentresMeadow Cross; Ashbourne; 3.4 How We Were Perceived; References; 4: Methods; 4.1 Rob and a Variationist Approach; 4.2 Susan and an Ethnographic/Interactional Approach; 4.3 A Clash of Cultures; The Two Approaches; Identifying Differences; Other Collaborative Studies; 4.4 Our Combined Approach; Categories; Mini-Crises; 4.5 Practicalities; Data Collection and Analysis; Problems and Challenges; Engagement, Resistance, and Misunderstanding; Noise; Note-Taking; Incomplete Data: Still Valid?; Funding and Time; 4.6 What We Learned; 4.7 Conclusion. |
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The Final PositionReferences; 5: A Year in the Life of the PRU; 5.1 About the Chapter; 5.2 Meadow Cross; 5.3 Ashbourne; 5.4 Comment; Recognising Our Role; Dealing with Confrontations; Knowing When to Approach Individuals; Identifying Opportunities and Dealing with Practical Challenges; Ethical Concerns; References; 6: Manchester Youth Language; 6.1 About the Chapter; 6.2 Orientations; 6.3 Vowels and Consonants; Acoustic Analysis; happy; letter; goose; price; mouth; face; 6.4 Quotatives; Some Background; MLE; Quotatives in the PRU; 6.5 Lexis; 6.6 Summary and the Elephants in the Room. |
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ElephantsEthnicity; Gender; Region; References; 7: TH-Stopping, Ethnicity, and Grime; 7.1 TH-Stopping and DH-Stopping; TH-Stopping, Ethnicity, Culture and Music; 7.2 Ethnicity; 7.3 Data and Analysis; Quantitative Analysis; Interactional Analysis; References; 8: Giving Back; 8.1 Just Being There; 8.2 Mock Interviews; 8.3 Raising Awareness of the Value of Non-Ù›standard Language; 8.4 Comic Art Scenarios; Example 1: 'The Cage'; Example 2: 'The Purple Pen'; 8.5 Update; References; 9: Final Thoughts; 9.1 The Project; 9.2 The Book; 9.3 Final Reflection; References; Author Index. |
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Urban dialects.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Linguistic change.
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Slang.
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Language and education.
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Anthropological linguistics.
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Ethnology.
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sociolinguistics. |
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anthropological linguistics. |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General. |
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Anthropological linguistics |
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Ethnology |
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Language and education |
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Linguistic change |
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Slang |
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Sociolinguistics |
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Urban dialects |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Drummond, Rob. Researching urban youth language and identity. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 331973461X 9783319734613 (OCoLC)1013945629 |
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9783319734620 (electronic bk.) |
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3319734628 (electronic bk.) |
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9783319734613 (print) |
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331973461X |
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