M B H Rampton
Biographic Data
| ID | 745808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M B H Rampton |
| GIVEN NAMES | M B H |
| FAMILY NAME | Rampton |
| SIGNATURE | RAMPTON M B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Conclusion
This chapter discusses the different kinds of involvement with informants have been outlined – &s;on&s;; &s;on and for&s;; &s;on, for and with&s;. It introduces the concepts of ethical, advocate and empowering research positions. The chapter discusses epistemological positions – positivism, relativism, realism – according to the potential which they offer for empowering research and generally opted for realism. It focuses on methods of data colle…
Scope for Empowerment in Sociolinguistics?
Perhaps it is often only while you are doing a piece of research that you actually find out the kind of research that you would ideally like to do. This certainly seems to be quite frequently the case in Ph.D. research, and as a result, quite a good deal of effort can be spent back-pedalling, trying to reshape what you’ve done to fit changing ideas of what it is that you want.
Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method
Second Language Learners in a Stratified Multilingual Setting
This paper discusses the ethnographic investigation of a multilingual adolescent peer group in which various forms of second/other language learner status had considerable social significance. The paper describes the learning and use of minority languages by youngsters from other language backgrounds, and begins by discussing the role of Panjabi as a language learner language within jocular abuse. This is compared with other Punjabi second langua…
Interracial Panjabi in a British adolescent peer group
Several sociologists have noted the emergence of syncretic multiracial youth cultures in Britain and addressed its political significance. Most discussion has focused on Afro-Caribbean influences, but this article considers Asian involvement by analyzing the use of Panjabi by black and white adolescents in a mixed peer group. Informant reports suggested that Panjabi crossing was common, though assessments varied according to its contexts of occur…
Displacing the ‘native speaker’: Expertise, affiliation, and inheritance
The concepts native speaker and mother tongue are often criticized, but they continue in circulation in the absence of alternatives. This article suggests some. The terms language expertise, language inheritance, and language affiliation sort out some of the mystification, and they allow us to place educational questions of language ability and language loyalty alongside a broader view of society.1
Displacing the 'native speaker': Expertise, affiliation, and inheritance
A non‐educational view of ESL in Britain
In Britain, there have been no in‐depth ethnographic studies of the status and use of English as a second language amongst young people outside classrooms. Partially to correct this omission, this paper first describes perceptions and rhetorical exploitations of ESL within a multilingual peer group consisting of adolescent boys who are proficient in English but who have close ties with people inexpert in that language: firstly, bilinguals of Indi…
Who' of Semilingualism
Comments on the paper by P. Johnson, H. Giles and R.Y. Bourhis: The Viability of Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Reply in JMMD, 1983, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.255–269
Some flaws in educational discussion of the English of Asian schoolchildren in britain
This article examines educational literature concerned with the English of Asian2 schoolchildren in Britain. It focuses on the often pejorative use of the phrase ‘deceptive fluency’, and characterises discussion as normative, teacher‐centred and only narrowly socio‐linguistic in scope. In contrast to this has been the treatment of West Indian language, although there are now a few signs that educational discussion of Asian children's English may …
Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method
A non‐educational view of ESL in Britain
In Britain, there have been no in‐depth ethnographic studies of the status and use of English as a second language amongst young people outside classrooms. Partially to correct this omission, this paper first describes perceptions and rhetorical exploitations of ESL within a multilingual peer group consisting of adolescent boys who are proficient in English but who have close ties with people inexpert in that language: firstly, bilinguals of Indi…
Interracial Panjabi in a British adolescent peer group
Several sociologists have noted the emergence of syncretic multiracial youth cultures in Britain and addressed its political significance. Most discussion has focused on Afro-Caribbean influences, but this article considers Asian involvement by analyzing the use of Panjabi by black and white adolescents in a mixed peer group. Informant reports suggested that Panjabi crossing was common, though assessments varied according to its contexts of occur…
Some flaws in educational discussion of the English of Asian schoolchildren in britain
This article examines educational literature concerned with the English of Asian2 schoolchildren in Britain. It focuses on the often pejorative use of the phrase ‘deceptive fluency’, and characterises discussion as normative, teacher‐centred and only narrowly socio‐linguistic in scope. In contrast to this has been the treatment of West Indian language, although there are now a few signs that educational discussion of Asian children's English may …
Who' of Semilingualism
Comments on the paper by P. Johnson, H. Giles and R.Y. Bourhis: The Viability of Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Reply in JMMD, 1983, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.255–269
Some flaws in educational discussion of the English of Asian schoolchildren in britain
This article examines educational literature concerned with the English of Asian2 schoolchildren in Britain. It focuses on the often pejorative use of the phrase ‘deceptive fluency’, and characterises discussion as normative, teacher‐centred and only narrowly socio‐linguistic in scope. In contrast to this has been the treatment of West Indian language, although there are now a few signs that educational discussion of Asian children's English may …
Who' of Semilingualism
Comments on the paper by P. Johnson, H. Giles and R.Y. Bourhis: The Viability of Ethnolinguistic Vitality: A Reply in JMMD, 1983, Vol. 4, No. 4, pp.255–269
A non‐educational view of ESL in Britain
In Britain, there have been no in‐depth ethnographic studies of the status and use of English as a second language amongst young people outside classrooms. Partially to correct this omission, this paper first describes perceptions and rhetorical exploitations of ESL within a multilingual peer group consisting of adolescent boys who are proficient in English but who have close ties with people inexpert in that language: firstly, bilinguals of Indi…
Displacing the ‘native speaker’: Expertise, affiliation, and inheritance
The concepts native speaker and mother tongue are often criticized, but they continue in circulation in the absence of alternatives. This article suggests some. The terms language expertise, language inheritance, and language affiliation sort out some of the mystification, and they allow us to place educational questions of language ability and language loyalty alongside a broader view of society.1
Displacing the 'native speaker': Expertise, affiliation, and inheritance
Second Language Learners in a Stratified Multilingual Setting
This paper discusses the ethnographic investigation of a multilingual adolescent peer group in which various forms of second/other language learner status had considerable social significance. The paper describes the learning and use of minority languages by youngsters from other language backgrounds, and begins by discussing the role of Panjabi as a language learner language within jocular abuse. This is compared with other Punjabi second langua…
Interracial Panjabi in a British adolescent peer group
Several sociologists have noted the emergence of syncretic multiracial youth cultures in Britain and addressed its political significance. Most discussion has focused on Afro-Caribbean influences, but this article considers Asian involvement by analyzing the use of Panjabi by black and white adolescents in a mixed peer group. Informant reports suggested that Panjabi crossing was common, though assessments varied according to its contexts of occur…
Conclusion
This chapter discusses the different kinds of involvement with informants have been outlined – &s;on&s;; &s;on and for&s;; &s;on, for and with&s;. It introduces the concepts of ethical, advocate and empowering research positions. The chapter discusses epistemological positions – positivism, relativism, realism – according to the potential which they offer for empowering research and generally opted for realism. It focuses on methods of data colle…
Scope for Empowerment in Sociolinguistics?
Perhaps it is often only while you are doing a piece of research that you actually find out the kind of research that you would ideally like to do. This certainly seems to be quite frequently the case in Ph.D. research, and as a result, quite a good deal of effort can be spent back-pedalling, trying to reshape what you’ve done to fit changing ideas of what it is that you want.
Researching Language: Issues of Power and Method
Linguistics (8 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (3 works)