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Ben Rampton is a professor of Applied Sociolinguistics and the founding Director of the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication at King's College London. He directed the King’s Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre from 2011 to 2014 and served as the convener of the Linguistic Ethnography Forum from 2001 to 2009. He has been involved with the editorial board of over a dozen international journals, including the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language and Society, and Applied Linguistics. Ben is renowned for his research in ethnographic interactional discourse analysis, which intersects anthropology, sociology, and cultural security studies. His publications delve into themes of urban multilingualism, youth culture, ethnic identities, class dynamics, (in)securitization, and education. He teaches various courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, including MPhil/PhD workshops focused on micro-discourse analysis, and undergraduate modules in English Language and Linguistics. Ben supervises numerous PhD projects, each exploring unique dimensions of sociolinguistics and interactional studies. His work is integral to understanding language in contexts of migration, representation, and identity.
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