Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

• Main Author: Drummond, Rob (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sociolinguistics.; Linguistic change.; Linguistic anthropology.; Language and languages-Study and teaching.; Slang.; Ethnography.; Language Change.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Language Education.; Slang and Jargon.

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 a...