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Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents

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Author's acknowledgements
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Preliminaries
Introduction: language, ethnicity and youth in late industrial Britain
Local reports of language crossing
Interaction with adults: contesting stratification
Stylised Asian English (i): interactional ritual, symbol and politics
Panjabi (i): interactional and institutional participation frameworks
Creole (i): links to the local vernacular
Interaction with peers: negotiating solidarity
Stylised Asian English (ii): rituals of differentiation and consensus
Panjabi (ii): playground agonism, 'language learning' and the liminal
Creole (ii): degrees of ritualisation in Ashmead and South London
Crossing and performance art
Creole and SAE (iii): rituals of morality and truth, falsity and doubt
Panjabi (iii): looking beyond the borders
Conclusions
Crossing and the sociolinguistics of language contact
Crossing, discourse and ideology
Educational discourses on language
Appendices
Bibliography
General Index
Author Index
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