Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Acknowledgements; Transcription conventions; Segmental phonetics; Vowels; Consonants; Prosody; Conversational features; Part I: Introduction; 1 Late modern language, interaction and schooling; Part II: Urban classroom discourse; 2 Talk in class at Central High; 3 Popular culture in the classroom; Part III: Performances of Deutsch; 4 Deutsch in improvised performance; 5 Ritual in the instruction and inversion of German; Part IV: The stylisation of social class; 6 Language and class I: theoretical orientations
Summary
Provides a sociolinguistic account of classroom interaction, based on research in an inner-city high school
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-434) and indexes
