RMF2012 Abstracts

Session: Wednesday 4th July AM (09.15 - 12.45)

Title: Linguistic Ethnography: An Indicative Analysis

Name: Ben Rampton

Affiliation: King

Abstract Details

Language and communication are central to social science research, and play a key role in participant-observation, surveys, interviews, and experimental interventions. How researchers engage with language and communication crucially shapes the rigour and validity of their work, and the perspectives and tools explored in this session are designed to help researchers avoid the perils of both under- and over-interpreting communicative data. This session introduces 'linguistic ethnography', an approach which holds (a) that the contexts for communication should be investigated, not just assumed, and (b) that biography, identifications, stance and nuance are extensively signalled in the interactional fine-grain.

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Presenter: Ben Rampton

Neo-Hymesian linguistic ethnography in the UK

The level of the session is: Accessible

Presentation details

Presenter 1

Start time: 09:15

Presentation title: Video viewing and discussion. Micro-analysis.

Author: Professor Ben Rampton

Affiliation: King's College London

Presenter 2

Start time: 11:15

Presentation title: Micro-, multimodal and transcontextual analyses

Author: Dr Jeff Bezemer

Affiliation: Institute of Education

Presenter 3

Start time: 11:15

Presentation title: Micro-, multimodal and transcontextual analyses

Author: Professor Ben Rampton

Affiliation: King's College London