Interactional sociolinguistics, crossing and North/South research relations

Ben Rampton

Interactional sociolinguistics, crossing and North/South research relations

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Taking interactional sociolinguistics and my own research on crossing as focal cases, this paper responds to
Masters & Makoni who ask “what happens to epistemologies that originate in the Global North when they
are used in the Global South to confront concerns about... how to address, mitigate, and possibly reverse the
social inequality, discrimination, economic, political oppression, and heteropatriarchy encountered by
peoples of the South”. The paper lays out my interpretation of the theory, methods and politics
underpinning interactional sociolinguistics (IS), and sets this next to five recent papers by scholars with
Southern links. There are several aspects of IS that dovetail with discussions of decolonial research, at least
in principle, but outside “the most lavishly funded universities and research establishments” (Burawoy &
von Holdt 2012), how practicable is the slow and sustained immersion in discourse data that interactional
sociolinguistics involves?

Original language	English
Number of pages	12
Publication status	Published - 2019

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Name	Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies
No.	257

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