Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at King’s College London. He is author of Language and Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006), co-author of Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (Routledge, 1992), and co-editor of The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader (Routledge, 2003) and Language and Superdiversity (Routledge, 2016).

• Acknowledgements Transcription Symbols and Conventions Preface to the Routledge Linguistics Classics Edition Part I: Introductory Introduction Local Reports of Language Crossing Part II: Interaction with Adults: Contesting Stratification Stylised Asian English (i) Panjabi (i) Creole (i) Part III: Interaction with Peers: Negotiating Solidarity Stylised Asian English (ii) Panjabi (ii) Creole (ii) Part IV: Crossing and Performance Art Creole and SAE (iii) Panjabi (iii) Part V: Conclusions Crossing and the Sociolinguistics of Language Contact Crossing, Discourse and Ideology Educational Discourses on Language Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography Index Figures Numbered extracts, settings and main participants

"The importance of this book for sociolinguistics cannot be overestimated." C. Kramsch, 1998, Review, Language and Education "Rampton’s book Crossing put the sociolinguistic study of style, and of interethnic styling in particular, on a new footing. […] The distinctiveness of Rampton’s work lies in its ethnographic depth, theoretical openness and empirical specificity." N. Coupland, 2007, Review, Style "Ben Rampton has produced a very important study, not only on language and ethnicity among adolescents… but on a range of sociolinguistic topics." J. Blommaert, 1998, Review, Journal of Sociolinguistics "A research monograph which manages to be empirically thorough, methodologically rigorous, and of practical and theoretical interest." M. Heller, 1997, Review, International Journal of Bilingualism