Publications

Publication details [#60413]

Kirkham, Sam. 2015. Intersectionality and the social meanings of variation: Class, ethnicity, and social practice. Language in Society 44 (5) : 629–652.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adolescent | ethnicity | meaning | phonological variability | social class

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

It is debated how the social meanings of phonetic variation in the happy vowel realisation in Sheffield English, in four female, multiethnic high school communities of practice, are affected by an intricate link between ethnicity, social class, and social practice.