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WP235 Variation and identity: Stormzy's stylistic use of word-final schwa
2018
Despite recent interest in Multicultural London English, little qualitative research has been carried out into the use of its features in the light of sociolinguistic theories of identity creation. This dissertation addresses the gap by focusing on …
WP158 Language and identity in linguistic ethnography
2015
The study of language and identity from the perspective of linguistic ethnography (LE) has received increasing attention during the last decade. Resting upon the social and discursive turns in the social sciences, LE has ontological and …
Key words: identity, linguistic ethnography
WP96 Stance taking and social hierarchies: Using local dialect to construct the pre-adolescent social order
2012
Adolescence is understood to be the period when use of vernacular forms accelerates, and ?third wave? variation studies have provided a framework for understanding the social practices that construct teenage vernacular culture.? But adolescence does …
WP75 Language, social categories and interaction.
2011
This short paper considers the treatment of identity in sociolinguistics, advocating an interactional approach that reckons with social indexicality; it draws on research on language, ethnicity and class; and it proposes a solution to the problem of …
Key words: identity, sociolinguistics
WP73 Here and there: Space and social positioning in the identity narratives of Andalusian migrants
2011
This article explores a set of identity?related narratives collectively constructed by a group of Andalusian (Southern Spain) migrants settled in Aarhus, Denmark, in a focus group interview. Linking up to previous narrative work in which the role of …
Key words: focus groups, identity, migration, narrative, small‐stories, space
WP54 Doing Nakl : A Mimicry of Resistance by British-born South Asian Adolescents in East London
2008
After showing that "ethnic absolutism" no longer holds sway, I report on the imitation, or nakl - a term that this paper introduces - of some South Asian people by five British South Asian college students. My informants do nakl in London English, …
Key words: adolescents, identity
WP44 Space, scale and accents: Constructing migrant identity in Beijing
2007
This paper draws on the recently theorised notions of space and scale in sociolinguistics to investigate the complexity and micro-variation of the Chinese language in the context of mass internal migration, and the way in which sociolinguistic …
WP35 Popular culture consumption and identities at school
2006
This paper draws from a three-year project entitled ?Urban Classroom Culture and Interaction? that investigates the significance of teen consumption of media and popular culture within the everyday environment of a multi-ethnic secondary school. This …