The research published in rampton 19952005 was conducted in 1984 and 1987 and focused on about sixty 1116 year olds with indian, pakistani, caribbean, anglo and bangladeshi backgrounds, most of whom had been born in the uk see rampton 2005. Pdf language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and. Google scholar crossref isi rampton, ben 1998 speech community, in jef verschueren, janola oestman, jan blommaert and chris bulcaen eds handbook of pragmatics. Speech communities may be large regions like an urban area with a common, distinct accent think of boston with its dropped rs or small units like families and friends. Speech communities may be large regions like an urban area with a common, distinct accent think of boston with its dropped rs or small units. Following a protracted process of paradigm shift, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology are well placed to engage with the contemporary social changes associated with superdiversity. Convergence and divergence across a national border, carmen llamas d2.
It is in the entextualisation of the perlocutionary aspect of his reaction to the womans speeches that we will find the answer. Codeswitching, speech community membership, and the construction of. Nationstates and minorities 1 introduction 9 joshua fishman 1972 117 the impact of nationalism on language planning 10 michael billig 1995 127 banal nationalism 11 ray honeyford 1988 145 the language issue in multiethnic. Everyday antiracism in ethnolinguistic crossing and. Review of ben rampton 2006, language in late modernity. Versions of different parts of i wert e rea adt th sociolinguistice s symposiu imn liverpoo anld the societas linguistics europaea meetin ign manchester, both in september 1984. Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and. Speech community is a term in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology used to describe a group of people who share the same language, speech characteristics, and ways of interpreting communication. There is a link between structures of economic, social and political power and the use of language. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. A speech community is a group of people who share a set. Interaction, indexicality and the total linguistic fact. Aug 15, 2000 2014 from opposition to transcendence. It focuses on language crossing the use of panjabi by adolescents of africancaribbean and anglo descent, the use of creole by adolescents with panjabi and anglo backgrounds, and the use of stylized indian english.
Speech community ben rampton kings college speech community has been a troubled term, caught in a number of methodological, epistemic and political. Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key. Rampton, ben 1998 speech community, in jef verschueren, janola oestman, jan blommaert and chris bulcaen eds handbook of pragmatics. Speech community ben rampton linguistics ethnography. Language and identity 14 40 language crossing ben rampton studied language crossing among adolescent friendship groups in england and found. This leads to the second point, that style like language is not a thing but a practice. Nationstates and minorities 1 introduction 9 joshua fishman 1972 117 the impact of nationalism on language planning 10 michael billig 1995 127 banal nationalism 11 ray honeyford 1988 145 the language issue in. Ben rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data, and. Along similar lines, traditional ideas about the native speaker of a language and the vital contribution that early experience in stable speech communities makes. It is important to remember that group is a relative concept with respect to speech community.
Google scholar crossref isi rampton, ben 1998 speech community, in jef verschueren, janola oestman, jan blommaert and. Ben rampton this paper begins in section 1 by noting two processes that have been generally overlooked in sociolinguistics. Shifting borders and shifting regional identities, joan beal d3. Ben rampton research portal, kings college, london. Speech community has been a troubled term, caught in a number of. Everyday antiracism in ethnolinguistic crossing and stylisation 1 by ben rampton abstract in britain in the late 1980s and 1990s, a number of researchers committed to countering racism argued that during the previous decade, antiracism had been too doctrinaire, and. Defining communities, defining practices volume 28 issue 2 miriam meyerhoff. The use of punjabi by young people of anglo and afrocaribbean descent the use of creole by anglos and punjabis the use of stylized indian english by all three 41 language crossing 42 language. The speech community spcom, a core concept in empirical linguistics, is the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. A group of people who use the same set of speech signals is a speechcommunity 1933. This short paper considers the treatment of identity in sociolinguistics, advocating an interactional approach that reckons with social indexicality. A group of people who use the same set of speech signals is a speech community 1933.
Speech community has been a troubled term, caught in a number of methodological, epistemic and political crosscurrents, and in this paper i will try to trace some of its most important shifts in meaning since the 1960s. Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key subjects, including speech. As a term designating a particular configuration of interests within the broader field of socio. A process of formal study of writings, removing texts from their context thus rendering them coherent, effective and memorable. Communities of practice and peripherality, emma moore c3. Coupland, nikolas bishop, hywel evans, betsy and garrett, peter 2006. This has several implications for our view of variation. Ben rampton crossing language and ethnicity among adolescents. Language and superdiversity united nations educational. International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism 17. Sociolinguistics group social network internalexternal. Pdf language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation ben rampton this paper begins in section 1. It is inescapable, yet there is remarkably little agreement or theoretical discussion of the. Interaction in an urban school comments postprint version.
I studied can be considered a community section 3, the empirical. Contribution to journal article crossing of a different kind. Harris, dick hudson, ben rampton, peter trudgill and nigel vincent. Volume 5 this is a new and enlarged edition of ben rampton s groundbreaking study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture. The concept of speech community has a long and chequered history in. Herath trincomalee campus, eastern university, sri lanka. Ben rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data, and integrates the discussion of particular incidents with theories of discourse, codeswitching, social movements, resistance and ritual drawn from sociolinguistics, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity. Characterising the key features of gumperzian is, it. A reader an essential resource for all students of sociolinguistics, ethnic studies, linguistics, anthropology and intercultural studies. Request pdf on jan 1, 2009, ben rampton and others published speech community and beyond find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. A reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice. Language and identity university of wisconsinmadison. Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation. Ben rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data, and integrates the discussion of particular incidents with theories of discourse, codeswitching, social movements, resistance and ritual drawn from sociolinguistics, sociology. Analyses based on the speech community and intergroup distinctiveness are more useful in understanding this variation.
First, variables do not come into a style with a specific, fixed, meaning, but take on such meaning in the process of construction of the style. Sociolinguistic citizenship ben rampton, mel cooke sam. A study of language, ethnicity and youth in late industrial britain. The authentic speaker and the speech community, nik coupland c2. Ben rampton department of education and professional studies kings college london louise mullany school of english studies the university of. Also that an individual belongs to various speech communities, at the same time, but heshe will identify with only one of them. A definition of speech community in sociolinguistics. Helpful comments were received from participants a t both meetings.
Rampton, ben 1995 politics and change in research in applied linguistics, applied linguistics 162. Language, social categories and interaction tilburg university. Reviewing the challenges and opportunities presented by. Content introduction key terms definitions of speech community role of a single person withinout side the speech community how do we measure an individuals participation in the social groupspeech community. Narrating the racial other in the production of white masculinity. Nov 19, 20 intersecting communities people do use expressions indicates that they have some idea of how a typical. This list is based on crossref data as of 10 april 2020. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations.
Reviewing the challenges and opportunities presented by code switching and mixing in bangla md. The interest in translanguaging was initiated by ben ramptons empirical work in which he studied communication among adolescents in a uk neighbourhood. Speech community ben rampton kings college london email. Firstly, the prevailing approaches to ethnicity have tended to neglect the processes through which individuals can either adopt someone elses ethnicity, or get together with them and create a new one. Language, social categories and interaction author.
Studies discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and language education. Volume 5 this is a new and enlarged edition of ben ramptons groundbreaking study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture. A new methodology for the study of superdiverse speech devyani sharma queen mary, university of london ben rampton kings college london september 2011 abstract1 variationist analysis is sometimes used to infer social meanings from overall rates of use of a given variant. Sociolinguistics speech communities linkedin slideshare. A reader is a comprehensive collection of the best work that has been published in this exciting and growing area of anthropology, and is organized to provide a guide to key issues in the study of language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key. Jan blommaert and ben rampton read this article pdf, 1.