Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

by Rob Drummond

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030087921
• ISBN13: 9783030087920
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"