Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School
The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with one another and their teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern (contemporary) society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton presents the extensive sociolinguistic research he carried out in an inner-city high school. Through his vivid analysis of classroom talk, he offers answers to some important contemporary questions: does social class still count for young people, or is it in demise? Are traditional...
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Provides a sociolinguistic account of classroom interaction, based on research in an inner-city high school.
1Late modern language, interaction and schooling32Talk in class at central high413Popular culture in the classroom944Deutsch in improvised performance1375Ritual in the instruction and inversion of German1736Language and class I : theoretical orientations2157Language and class II : empirical preliminaries2398Schooling, class and stylisation2699Classed subjectivities in interaction32510Reflections on generalisation, theory and knowledge construction385
