Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Author biographies

1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION

ANTECEDENTS, RELATED AREAS AND KEY CONCEPTS

2. INTERACTIONAL SOCIOLINGUISTICS

3. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

4. LITERACY STUDIES

5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHIES OF GLOBALISATION

6. SCALE

7. SOCIAL CLASS

8. HETEROGLOSSIA

9. STYLE AND STYLISATION

10. MULTIMODALITY

METHODS

11. PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION AND FIELDNOTES

12. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEW

13. MICRO-ANALYSIS OF SPOKEN INTERACTION

14. ETHICS

15. COLLABORATIVE ETHNOGRAPHY

16. REFLEXIVITY

17. DIGITAL APPROACHES IN LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY

18. MIXING METHODS? LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY AND LANGUAGE VARIATION

SITES AND SITUATIONS

19. YOUTH LANGUAGE

20. LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN CLASSROOM SETTINGS

21. ELITE MULTILINGUALISM

22. LINGUA FRANCA SCENARIOS

23. FAITH COMMUNITIES

24. POLICY

25. SIGN LANGUAGES

26. ACADEMIC WRITING

Index

About the Author

Karin Tusting is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. Her research has in recent years focussed on the literacies of the workplace, with a particular interest in issues of audit and accountability.

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