Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

Provides an account of sociolinguistic practice amongst urban adolescents Focuses on the use of linguistic variation as a meaning-making tool in the enactment of identity Explores the extent to which a Multicultural Urban British English might be emerging Combines methods and analyses from variationist and interactional sociolinguistics with ethnography

Autorentext
Rob Drummond is Reader in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University and Head of Youth Language at the Manchester Centre for Youth Studies, UK.

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction.Chapter 2: The research context.Chapter 3: Our roles and identities.Chapter 4: Methods.Chapter 5: A Year in the life of the PRU.Chapter 6: Manchester Youth Language.-Chapter 7: TH-stopping, ethnicity, and grime. Chapter 8: Giving back. Chapter 9: Final thoughts.