Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied & Sociolinguistics at King's College London. Using linguistic ethnography and interactional sociolinguistics, his work covers urban multilingualism; youth, ethnicity and social class; conflict and (in)securitization; and language education policy and practice. He is the founding editor of Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies.

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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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