A neo-Hymesian trajectory in applied linguistics
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Ben Rampton,
Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied & Sociolinguistics and Director of the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication at King's College London. He interests cover urban multilingualism, ethnicity, class, youth and education. His books includeCrossing: Language & Ethnicity among Adolescents (1995/2005) andLanguage in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006); he editsWorking Papers in Urban Language and Literacy (www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc); and he was founding convener of the UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum (www.uklef.net).
Abstract
Rather than attempting a panoramic overview, this paper looks at knowledge construction in applied linguistics through the prism of a piece of data. It follows the analysis of this data into an academic argument, into a research training programme, and into professional development materials for teachers, and it argues that this empirically driven trajectory finds coherence in Hymes' writing on linguistic and ethnography.
About the author
Ben Rampton is Professor of Applied & Sociolinguistics and Director of the Centre for Language Discourse & Communication at King's College London. He interests cover urban multilingualism, ethnicity, class, youth and education. His books include Crossing: Language & Ethnicity among Adolescents (1995/2005) and Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School (2006); he edits Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacy (www.kcl.ac.uk/ldc); and he was founding convener of the UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum (www.uklef.net).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- On the roles of repetition in language teaching and learning
- Cognitivism, adaptive intelligence, and second language acquisition
- A neo-Hymesian trajectory in applied linguistics
- Migrant ethnic identities, mobile language resources: Identification practices of Sri Lankan Tamil youth
- Dominant pedagogical approaches and diverse teaching conditions: Integrating CLT in a Chinese university as a danwei community of practices
- The language of development and the development of language in contemporary Africa
- Language plurality of South Asia: A search for alternate models in knowledge construction
- Linguistic inequality and its effects on participation in scientific discourse and on global knowledge accumulation – With a closer look at the problems of the second-rank language communities
