Publications

Publication details [#26706]

Rampton, Ben. 1995. Language crossing and the problematisation of ethnicity and socialisation. Pragmatics 5 (4) : 485–513.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | language crossing | multilingualism | socialization | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, Afro-Carribean | English, stylised Asian | Panjabi

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores the practice of language crossing and its movement across social or ethnic boundaries by establishing negotiated ethnicities in multiracial U.K. friendship groups among teenagers.