1st Edition
Studying Language in Interaction A Practical Research Guide to Communicative Repertoire and Sociolinguistic Diversity
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Ways of Speaking: A Repertoire Approach
Chapter 2 Ways of Being Multilingual
Chapter 3 Ways of Sounding
Chapter 4 Ways of Naming
Chapter 5 Ways of Using Social Media
Chapter 6 Ways of Telling Stories
Chapter 7 Ways of Being Ironic
Chapter 8 Ways of Doing the Routine
Chapter 9 Research as a Way of Being in the World: Communicative Repertoire, Participant-Observation, and Citizen Sociolinguistics
Biography
Betsy Rymes is Professor and Chair of the Educational Linguistics Division at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. Her previous publications include Communicating Beyond Language (Routledge, 2014), Classroom Discourse Analysis (Routledge, 2016), and How We Talk about Language (2020).
A masterful and beautifully balanced introduction to a wide range of ways of doing & researching language in interaction in contemporary life: unpretentious and accessible yet richly detailed and nuanced. At last, a practical guide that definitively puts the notion of diversity at the heart of the sociolinguistic study of communicative practices. We must all find our way to it & change our ways because of it!
Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes, Professor of Discourse Analysis & Sociolinguistics, King’s College London
