The speech community spcom, a core concept in empirical linguistics, is the intersection of many principal problems in sociolinguistic theory and method. Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation. Defining communities, defining practices volume 28 issue 2 miriam meyerhoff. Speech community has been a troubled term, caught in a number of. A reader an essential resource for all students of sociolinguistics, ethnic studies, linguistics, anthropology and intercultural studies. A group of people who use the same set of speech signals is a speechcommunity 1933. 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. Interaction in an urban school comments postprint version. Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and. Codeswitching, speech community membership, and the construction of. Volume 5 this is a new and enlarged edition of ben rampton s groundbreaking study of sociolinguistic processes in urban youth culture. Sorry, we are unable to provide the full text but you may find it at the following locations. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers.
Characterising the key features of gumperzian is, it. Studies discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, and language education. 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. Communities of practice and peripherality, emma moore c3. 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. Sociolinguistics group social network internalexternal. Jan blommaert and ben rampton read this article pdf, 1. A speech community is a group of people who share a set. 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. Pdf language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and. A process of formal study of writings, removing texts from their context thus rendering them coherent, effective and memorable. Helpful comments were received from participants a t both meetings. This short paper considers the treatment of identity in sociolinguistics, advocating an interactional approach that reckons with social indexicality. Also that an individual belongs to various speech communities, at the same time, but heshe will identify with only one of them.
Along similar lines, traditional ideas about the native speaker of a language and the vital contribution that early experience in stable speech communities makes. This article has benefited from discussions with other members of the language and gender panel at the 6th iclasp meeting, university of ottawa, may 1997, especially janet holmes. A definition of speech community in sociolinguistics. The concept of speech community has a long and chequered history in.
There is a link between structures of economic, social and political power and the use of language. This list is based on crossref data as of 10 april 2020. Reviewing the challenges and opportunities presented by code switching and mixing in bangla md. 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. Ben rampton produces detailed ethnographic and interactional analyses of spontaneous speech data, and. It is important to remember that group is a relative concept with respect to speech community. The interest in translanguaging was initiated by ben ramptons empirical work in which he studied communication among adolescents in a uk neighbourhood. 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. Pdf language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation ben rampton this paper begins in section 1. Following a protracted process of paradigm shift, sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology are well placed to engage with the contemporary social changes associated with superdiversity. Speech community ben rampton linguistics ethnography. 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. Convergence and divergence across a national border, carmen llamas d2. Nov 19, 20 intersecting communities people do use expressions indicates that they have some idea of how a typical.
Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key subjects, including speech. 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. 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. Narrating the racial other in the production of white masculinity. Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity. International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism 17.
Revised and updated, this second edition contains eight new articles on key. Review of ben rampton 2006, language in late modernity. Harris, dick hudson, ben rampton, peter trudgill and nigel vincent. Language, social categories and interaction author. 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. This has several implications for our view of variation. Language, social categories and interaction tilburg university.
Ben rampton this paper begins in section 1 by noting two processes that have been generally overlooked in sociolinguistics. 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. Google scholar crossref isi rampton, ben 1998 speech community, in jef verschueren, janola oestman, jan blommaert and. It is inescapable, yet there is remarkably little agreement or theoretical discussion of the. Ben rampton crossing language and ethnicity among adolescents. Interaction, indexicality and the total linguistic fact. Analyses based on the speech community and intergroup distinctiveness are more useful in understanding this variation. Reviewing the challenges and opportunities presented by.
Contribution to journal article crossing of a different kind. Ben rampton department of education and professional studies kings college london louise mullany school of english studies the university of. It is in the entextualisation of the perlocutionary aspect of his reaction to the womans speeches that we will find the answer. The authentic speaker and the speech community, nik coupland c2. I studied can be considered a community section 3, the empirical. 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. Aug 15, 2000 2014 from opposition to transcendence. 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. Everyday antiracism in ethnolinguistic crossing and. A study of language, ethnicity and youth in late industrial britain. A group of people who use the same set of speech signals is a speech community 1933. Language and superdiversity united nations educational.
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. Rampton, ben 1995 politics and change in research in applied linguistics, applied linguistics 162. 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. 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 community ben rampton kings college london email. Sociolinguistics speech communities linkedin slideshare. 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. Shifting borders and shifting regional identities, joan beal d3. Google scholar crossref isi rampton, ben 1998 speech community, in jef verschueren, janola oestman, jan blommaert and chris bulcaen eds handbook of pragmatics. Herath trincomalee campus, eastern university, sri lanka.
Coupland, nikolas bishop, hywel evans, betsy and garrett, peter 2006. 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. Rampton, ben 1998 speech community, in jef verschueren, janola oestman, jan blommaert and chris bulcaen eds handbook of pragmatics. Ben rampton research portal, kings college, london. 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. 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. Language and identity university of wisconsinmadison. Speech community ben rampton kings college speech community has been a troubled term, caught in a number of methodological, epistemic and political.
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