Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions

Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics at King's College London. Using linguistic ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics, his work covers urban multilingualism; youth, ethnicity and social class; conflict and (in)securitisation; and language education policy and practice. He is the founding editor of Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies.

• AcknowledgementsTranscription ConventionsChapter 1. Introduction: Linguistic Practice in Changing ConditionsPart 1: Sociolinguistic Frameworks Tuned to Social ChangeChapter 2. Interactional SociolinguisticsChapter 3. Linguistic EthnographyChapter 4. Sociolinguistic CitizenshipPart 2: Ethnicity, Race and Class in Micro-practices of Differentiation and AlignmentChapter 5. Ethnicities without GuaranteesChapter 6. Style Contrasts, Migration and Social ClassChapter 7. From ‘Youth Language’ to Contemporary Urban VernacularsChapter 8. Styling in a Language Learnt Later in LifePart 3: Everyday (In)securitisation Chapter 9. Sociolinguistics and Everyday (In)securitisationChapter 10. Crossing of a Different KindChapter 11. Goffman and the Everyday Experience of SurveillanceAfterword: Jan Blommaert and the Uses of Sociolinguistics: Critical, Political, PersonalBibliographyIndex

Theoretically sound and methodologically rigorous, this book offers vibrant ethnographic descriptions of how people respond to (and take issue with) the rapidly changing conditions of late capitalist societies in the linguistic minutiae of their daily lives. Covering a wide range of phenomena, Ben Rampton (and colleagues) reimagines the role of sociolinguistics today, demonstrating the field’s vitality to understand the relationship between language and society in a vertiginous world.