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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ben Rampton is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions to Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, and Literature and Literary Theory. Other subfields include Sociology and Political Science as well as Gender Studies.

The main topics explored in Rampton's research include:

  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Gender Studies in Language

Recent papers authored by Rampton cover a range of sociolinguistic issues and were published between 2021 and 2024. These include:

  • "Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity," 2024, Language in Society
  • "Jan Blommaert and the use of sociolinguistics: Critical, political, personal," 2021, Language in Society
  • "Localising linguistic citizenship in England," 2023, Language Teaching

Additional recent papers coauthored by others in related fields include:

  • "International relations, sociolinguistics and the 'everyday': a linguistic ethnography of peace-building through language education," 2021, Peacebuilding
  • "Everyday Surveillance, Goffman, and Unfocused Interaction," 2020, Surveillance & Society

Frequent collaborators include Melanie Cooke, Sam Holmes, Dermot Bryers, and Becky Winstanley, with multiple joint publications.

Rampton's work has appeared most frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Language in Society
  • Peacebuilding
  • Surveillance & Society
  • Language Teaching
  • Journal of Sociolinguistics

In addition to journal articles, Rampton has contributed to books published by Multilingual Matters eBooks and Channel View Publications eBooks. Notably, the title "Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions" was published multiple times in 2021, reflecting ongoing research themes.

Rampton has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Crossing : Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents

    Ben Rampton

  • Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School

    Ben Rampton

  • Language and Superdiversity

    Jan Blommaert;Ben Rampton;Ben Rampton

  • The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities

    Constant Leung;Roxy Harris;Ben Rampton

  • Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents

    Reyes I. Fidalgo;Ben Rampton

  • Neo‐Hymesian linguistic ethnography in the United Kingdom

    Ben Rampton

  • Language Crossing and the Problematisation of Ethnicity and Socialisation

    Ben Rampton

  • From 'Multi-ethnic adolescent heteroglossia' to 'Contemporary urban vernaculars'

    Ben Rampton

  • Interaction ritual and not just artful performance in crossing and stylization

    Ben Rampton

  • Styling the Other: Introduction

    Ben Rampton

  • Ethics, Advocacy, and Empowerment: Issues of Method in Researching Language.

    Deborah Cameron;Elizabeth Frazer;Penelope Harvey;Ben Rampton

  • Theory and method in linguistic ethnography

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  • Language in Late Modernity: List of figures

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  • Second Language Research in Late Modernity: A Response to Firth and Wagner.

    Ben Rampton

  • Retuning in applied linguistics

    Ben Rampton

  • Hegemony, social class and stylisation

    Ben Rampton

  • Deutsch in Inner London and the animation of an instructed foreign language

    Ben Rampton

  • Methodology in the Analysis of Classroom Discourse

    Ben Rampton;Celia Roberts;Constant Leung;Roxy Harris

  • UK LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY: A DISCUSSION PAPER Coordinating Committee UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum 1

    Ben Rampton;Karin Tusting;Janet Maybin;Richard Barwell

  • Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates

    Ben Rampton

  • Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy

    Ben Rampton

  • Ritual and foreign language practices at school

    Ben Rampton

  • Critique in Interaction

    Ben Rampton

  • Politics and Change in Research in Applied Linguistics.

    Ben Rampton

  • Key terms in language and culture

    Ben Rampton

  • Sociolinguistics and social theory

    Ben Rampton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Blommaert
Jan Blommaert Tilburg University
Deborah Cameron
Deborah Cameron University of Oxford
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Martyn Hammersley
Martyn Hammersley The Open University

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