Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School

摘要: The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with one another their teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton presents extensive sociolinguistic research he carried out an inner-city high school. Through his vivid analysis classroom talk, offers answers to some important questions: does social class still count for young people, or is it demise? Are traditional authority relationships schools being undermined? How affected by popular media culture? His study, which provides numerous transcripts three case studies, introduces way perceiving established ideas sociolinguistics, such as identity, insecurity, orderliness experience learning at doing so, shows work sociolinguistics contribute major debates sociology, anthropology, cultural studies education.