Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions

This book draws on 10 years of collaborative sociolinguistic work on the changing conditions of language use. It begins with guiding principles, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ahead.

This book demonstrates the power and distinctiveness of the contribution that sociolinguistics can make to our understanding of everyday communicative practice under changing social conditions. It builds on the approaches developed by Gumperz and Hymes in the 1970s and 80s, and it not only affirms their continuing relevance in analyses of the micropolitics of everyday talk in urban settings, but also argues for their value in emergent efforts to chart the heavily securitised environments now developing around us. Drawing on 10 years of collaborative work and ranging across disciplinary, interdisciplinary and applied perspectives, the book begins with guiding principles and methodology, shifts to empirically driven arguments in urban sociolinguistics, and concludes with studies of (in)securitised communication addressed to challenges ahead.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions

Part 1: Sociolinguistic Frameworks Tuned to Social Change

Chapter 2. Interactional Sociolinguistics

Chapter 3. Linguistic Ethnography

Chapter 4. Sociolinguistic Citizenship

Part 2: Ethnicity, Race and Class in Micro-practices of Differentiation and Alignment

Chapter 5. Ethnicities without Guarantees

Chapter 6. Style Contrasts, Migration and Social Class

Chapter 7. From ‘Youth Language’ to Contemporary Urban Vernaculars

Chapter 8. Styling in a Language Learnt Later in Life

Part 3: Everyday (In)securitisation

Chapter 9. Sociolinguistics and Everyday (In)securitisation

Chapter 10. Crossing of a Different Kind

Chapter 11. Goffman and the Everyday Experience of Surveillance

Afterword: Jan Blommaert and the Uses of Sociolinguistics: Critical, Political, Personal

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Index