Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista
- 2 ‘Spanish is becoming famous’: youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community
- 3 ‘True Samoan’: ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality
- 4 ‘They’re in my culture, they speak the same way’: sharing African American Language at South Vista
- Interlude : on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools
- 5 ‘You rep what you’re from’: texting identities in multiethnic youth space
- 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism
- Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference
- Notes
- References
- Index
Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Beginnings: shouts of affirmation from South Vista
- 2 ‘Spanish is becoming famous’: youth perspectives on Spanish in a changing youth community
- 3 ‘True Samoan’: ethnic solidarity and linguistic reality
- 4 ‘They’re in my culture, they speak the same way’: sharing African American Language at South Vista
- Interlude : on oral language use, research, and teaching in multiethnic schools
- 5 ‘You rep what you’re from’: texting identities in multiethnic youth space
- 6 Making school go: re-visioning school for pluralism
- Appendix: Notes on methodology in cultural studies of language across difference
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
Investigating oral and written language as it challenged and reinforced ethnic difference did not fall neatly into any one methodological box. This is not a new problem in applied social language and educational research. The complex real-world problems of interest to applied social linguists and educational researchers rarely fit into the theory or methodology of any one discipline. My work with youth in South Vista attempted to bring together knowledge about oral and written language at various micro and macro levels as it mapped out experiences of difference, division, and unity and as it relates to educational theory and practice. Such social, cultural, and linguistic terrain demanded several methods of collection and analysis from the distinct, but complementary disciplines of sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, critical discourse analysis, language and literacy studies in education and, more generally, cultural anthropology.
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- Language across DifferenceEthnicity, Communication, and Youth Identities in Changing Urban Schools, pp. 175 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011