This article looks at issues of critique from the perspective of interactional sociolinguistic (IS) discourse analysis. Using a small case study of the ways in which social class is both reproduced and problematized in the speech of inner London adolescents, it elaborates on the tensions between ‘behavioural’ and ‘established ideology’ that lie at the heart of IS research, and points to the changing intellectual environment in which the assessment of its practical value needs to be made.
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