Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Kingâs College London. He is author of Language and Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006), co-author of Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (Routledge, 1992), and co-editor of The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader (Routledge, 2003) and Language and Superdiversity (Routledge, 2016).
<p>"The importance of this book for sociolinguistics cannot be overestimated." </p><p>C. Kramsch, 1998, Review, <i>Language and Education</i> </p><p>"Ramptonâs book <i>Crossing</i> put the sociolinguistic study of style, and of interethnic styling in particular, on a new footing. [âŚ] The distinctiveness of Ramptonâs work lies in its ethnographic depth, theoretical openness and empirical specificity." </p><p>N. Coupland, 2007, Review, <i>Style</i> </p><p>"Ben Rampton has produced a very important study, not only on language and ethnicity among adolescents⌠but on a range of sociolinguistic topics." </p><p>J. Blommaert, 1998, Review, <i>Journal of Sociolinguistics</i> </p><p>"A research monograph which manages to be empirically thorough, methodologically rigorous, and of practical and theoretical interest." </p><p>M. Heller, 1997, Review, <i>International Journal of Bilingualism</i></p>
<p><strong>Praise for <em>Crossing, First Edition</em></strong></p><p>"Published in 1995, Ben Ramptonâs book <i>Crossing </i>put the sociolinguistic study of style, and of interethnic styling in particular, on a new footing. His work shares many assumptions and priorities with the studies I have been reviewing in this chapte and it has been an important stimulus to many of them. [...] The distinctiveness of Ramptonâs work lies in its ethnographic depth, theoretical openness and empirical specificity" (N. Coupland, 2007, Review, <i>Style </i>136-7)</p><p>"Ben Rampton has produced a very important study, not only on language and ethnicity among adolescents⌠but on a range of sociolinguistic topics" (J. Blommaert, 1998, Review, <i>Journal of Sociolinguistics </i>2/1: 119)</p><p>"This is another wonderful contribution from Longmanâs Real Language series, a research monograph which manages to be empirically thorough, methodologically rigorous, and of practical and theoretical interest" (M. Heller, 1997, Review, <i>International Journal of Bilingualism </i>1/1: 71)</p><p>"The importance of this book for sociolinguistics cannot be overestimated" (C. Kramsch, 1998, Review, <i>Language and Education</i> 12/1: 74)</p>
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at Kingâs College London. He is author of Language and Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006), co-author of Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method (Routledge, 1992), and co-editor of The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader (Routledge, 2003) and Language and Superdiversity (Routledge, 2016).