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Publication details [#55186]

Lawson, Robert. 2011. Patterns of linguistic variation among Glaswegian adolescent males. Journal of Sociolinguistics 15 (2) : 226–255.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | identity negotiation | language use | language variation | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This research on working-class adolescent males' language use at Glasgow's Banister Academy, presents the first ethnographically supported sociolinguistic account of Glaswegian linguistic variation and explores the link between language (use) and identity.