Language Variation Paul Kerswill interviewed by Benjamin Zephaniah for Radio 4
Date: 6 December 2009
Paul Kerswill was interviewed by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah for the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Mind your Slanguage', to be broadcast at 11am on Tuesday 8th December. The programme features politicians and poets in addition to linguists, and examines the rise of new varieties of youth language and whether these should be tolerated in educational contexts.
News website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p60hx
Further information
Associated staff: Paul Kerswill
Associated projects: Multicultural London English: the emergence, acquisition and diffusion of a new variety
Associated departments and research centres: Language Variation and Linguistic Theory (LVLT), Linguistics and English Language