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SUMMARY:Styling in a Language Learned Later in Life - Professor Ben Rampto
 n\, Professor of Applied and Socio-linguistics\, King’s College London
DTSTART:20121114T173000Z
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CONTACT:Ewa Illakowicz
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nThis paper analyses the styles of English produced
  by an adult migrant who learnt the language later in life\, approaching t
 hese as quantitative style-shifting and discursive stylisation. After defi
 ning style and the procedures needed to justify the term 'L2'\, the paper 
 describes the focal informant's diasporic experience in London\, and then 
 shows how his style-shifting and some of his L2 speech variants chime with
  now well-established local patterns. It then turns to stylisation in the 
 performance of character speech in narrative\, exploring the complex and n
 ot always effective relationship between linguistic form\, discursive cont
 ext and socio-indexical resonance in Mandeep's performance of Anglo vs Ind
 ian and then vernacular Anglo. The paper concludes with a characterisation
  of Mandeep's participation in the London sociolinguistic economy\, and co
 mments on linguistic anthropology's potential value to studies of L2 style
 . Overall\, it seeks to navigate a route between a priori assumptions abou
 t linguistic deficiency in SLA on the one hand\, and romantic celebrations
  of difference in sociolinguistics on the other.\n\nBio\n\nProfessor Ben R
 ampton is Professor of Applied and Socio-Linguistics in the Department of 
 Education and Professional Studies\, King’s College London. He is a fell
 ow of Academy of Social Science and the founding convener of UK Linguistic
  Ethnography Forum. His research involves ethnographic and interactional d
 iscourse analysis\, cross-referring to work in anthropology\, sociology an
 d cultural studies. His publications cover language\, urban multilingualis
 m\, youth\, popular culture\, ethnicities\, class\, language education and
  classroom discourse. He is currently involved in a Leverhulme Trust resea
 rch project ‘Crossing languages and borders: intercultural language educ
 ation in a conflict-ridden context’ and an ESRC project on language\, cl
 ass and education. \n
LOCATION: Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, Ro
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