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This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.

Urban dialects. --- Sociolinguistics. --- Linguistic change. --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- Historical linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Dialects, Urban --- Urbanisms (Linguistics) --- Cities and towns --- Dialectology --- Languages in contact --- Sociolinguistics --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Variation --- Linguistic anthropology. --- Language and languages—Study and teaching. --- Slang. --- Ethnography. --- Language Change. --- Linguistic Anthropology. --- Language Education. --- Slang and Jargon. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Argot --- Colloquial language --- Cant --- Obscene words --- Anthropo-linguistics --- Ethnolinguistics --- Language and ethnicity --- Linguistic anthropology --- Linguistics and anthropology --- English language Slang --- Slang --- English language --- Urban youth --- Anthropological linguistics. --- Ethnology.

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Arguments are all around us. Everywhere we look, someone is trying to get our attention, change our minds, or sell us something. Learning about how persuasion works will make you a more thoughtful and skeptical consumer of all that content, so that you can come to your own conclusions and recognize the underlying assumptions that inform those attempts to persuade you. This book is about analyzing others' arguments and crafting your own. The rhetorical choices that you make as a writer-from evidence to structure to tone-impact how your audience will receive your ideas. Using those tools effectively will help your voice be heard.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)