Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

von: Rob Drummond

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

ISBN: 9783319734620 , 294 Seiten

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Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity


 

Preface

6

Contents

8

Transcription Conventions

11

List of Figures

12

List of Tables

13

1: Introduction

14

1.1 What This Book Is About

14

1.2 Setting the Scene

16

The ‘Pre-pilot’

17

The Pilot

21

1.3 Aims and Research Questions

22

1.4 Why Manchester?

26

1.5 Why Is This Kind of Study Important?

27

1.6 Beginning the Project

27

References

30

2: The Research Context

33

2.1 The PRU

33

2.2 ‘Our’ Centres

35

Key Staff

37

Daily Routine

38

The Young People

42

2.3 PRU Identities

46

A Community of Practice?

47

Chavs

50

Identifiable Groups

51

Orientations

53

2.4 Summary

54

References

56

3: Our Roles and Identities

58

3.1 Rob

59

3.2 Susan

60

3.3 Our Roles and Identities in the Centres

61

Meadow Cross

62

Ashbourne

64

3.4 How We Were Perceived

67

References

69

4: Methods

70

4.1 Rob and a Variationist Approach

71

4.2 Susan and an Ethnographic/Interactional Approach

76

4.3 A Clash of Cultures

77

The Two Approaches

78

Identifying Differences

80

Other Collaborative Studies

84

4.4 Our Combined Approach

87

Categories

88

Mini-Crises

91

4.5 Practicalities

92

Data Collection and Analysis

92

Problems and Challenges

94

Engagement, Resistance, and Misunderstanding

94

Noise

98

Note-Taking

100

Incomplete Data: Still Valid?

101

Funding and Time

102

4.6 What We Learned

105

4.7 Conclusion

106

The Final Position

107

References

108

5: A Year in the Life of the PRU

113

5.1 About the Chapter

113

5.2 Meadow Cross

115

5.3 Ashbourne

159

5.4 Comment

193

Recognising Our Role

194

Dealing with Confrontations

195

Knowing When to Approach Individuals

195

Identifying Opportunities and Dealing with Practical Challenges

196

Ethical Concerns

196

References

198

6: Manchester Youth Language

200

6.1 About the Chapter

200

6.2 Orientations

203

6.3 Vowels and Consonants

207

Acoustic Analysis

207

happy

209

letter

214

goose

217

price

217

mouth

218

face

218

6.4 Quotatives

218

Some Background

218

MLE

219

Quotatives in the PRU

220

6.5 Lexis

224

6.6 Summary and the Elephants in the Room

230

Elephants

231

Ethnicity

231

Gender

231

Region

232

References

234

7: TH-Stopping, Ethnicity, and Grime

237

7.1 TH-Stopping and DH-Stopping

237

TH-Stopping, Ethnicity, Culture and Music

238

7.2 Ethnicity

239

7.3 Data and Analysis

241

Quantitative Analysis

241

Interactional Analysis

249

References

259

8: Giving Back

263

8.1 Just Being There

265

8.2 Mock Interviews

267

8.3 Raising Awareness of the Value of Non-­standard Language

268

8.4 Comic Art Scenarios

269

Example 1: ‘The Cage’

270

Example 2: ‘The Purple Pen’

274

8.5 Update

276

References

276

9: Final Thoughts

277

9.1 The Project

277

9.2 The Book

279

9.3 Final Reflection

279

References

280

Author Index

281

Subject Index

285