Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity

Preface
Contents
Transcription Conventions
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: Introduction
	1.1	 What This Book Is About
	1.2	 Setting the Scene
		The ‘Pre-pilot’
		The Pilot
	1.3	 Aims and Research Questions
	1.4	 Why Manchester?
	1.5	 Why Is This Kind of Study Important?
	1.6	 Beginning the Project
	References
2: The Research Context
	2.1	 The PRU
	2.2	 ‘Our’ Centres
		Key Staff
		Daily Routine
		The Young People
	2.3	 PRU Identities
		A Community of Practice?
		Chavs
		Identifiable Groups
		Orientations
	2.4	 Summary
	References
3: Our Roles and Identities
	3.1	 Rob
	3.2	 Susan
	3.3	 Our Roles and Identities in the Centres
		Meadow Cross
		Ashbourne
	3.4	 How We Were Perceived
	References
4: Methods
	4.1	 Rob and a Variationist Approach
	4.2	 Susan and an Ethnographic/Interactional Approach
	4.3	 A Clash of Cultures
		The Two Approaches
		Identifying Differences
		Other Collaborative Studies
	4.4	 Our Combined Approach
		Categories
		Mini-Crises
	4.5	 Practicalities
		Data Collection and Analysis
		Problems and Challenges
			Engagement, Resistance, and Misunderstanding
			Noise
			Note-Taking
			Incomplete Data: Still Valid?
			Funding and Time
	4.6	 What We Learned
	4.7	 Conclusion
		The Final Position
	References
5: A Year in the Life of the PRU
	5.1	 About the Chapter
	5.2	 Meadow Cross
	5.3	 Ashbourne
	5.4	 Comment
		Recognising Our Role
		Dealing with Confrontations
		Knowing When to Approach Individuals
		Identifying Opportunities and Dealing with Practical Challenges
		Ethical Concerns
	References
6: Manchester Youth Language
	6.1	 About the Chapter
	6.2	 Orientations
	6.3	 Vowels and Consonants
		Acoustic Analysis
			happy
			letter
			goose
			price
			mouth
			face
	6.4	 Quotatives
		Some Background
		MLE
		Quotatives in the PRU
	6.5	 Lexis
	6.6	 Summary and the Elephants in the Room
		Elephants
			Ethnicity
			Gender
			Region
	References
7: TH-Stopping, Ethnicity, and Grime
	7.1	 TH-Stopping and DH-Stopping
		TH-Stopping, Ethnicity, Culture and Music
	7.2	 Ethnicity
	7.3	 Data and Analysis
		Quantitative Analysis
		Interactional Analysis
	References
8: Giving Back
	8.1	 Just Being There
	8.2	 Mock Interviews
	8.3	 Raising Awareness of the Value of Non-­standard Language
	8.4	 Comic Art Scenarios
		Example 1: ‘The Cage’
		Example 2: ‘The Purple Pen’
	8.5	 Update
	References
9: Final Thoughts
	9.1	 The Project
	9.2	 The Book
	9.3	 Final Reflection
	References
Author Index
Subject Index