Anyone read any good articles lately?

[PhDreaming]

It's funny how the focus of this forum is totally getting into grad school and to a lesser extend what it's like to be there. I'm wondering if there are any other Sociolinguists or Linguistic Anthropologists out there reading anything super interesting that they would want to share with all of us. I'd suggest anyone can post about any cool article they read but I will have more (if anything) to say about the socio side of things.

At the "behest" of my advisor I just read Ben Rampton's brand new article in Language & Communication From 'Multi-ethnic adolescent heteroglossia' to 'Contemporary urban vernaculars' and had a few thoughts. Though I didn't really follow his rational for the terminological shift he argues for (mainly because his argumentation style is unfamiliar to me), he did make some very interesting points about "reflexive" language (i.e. crossing and stylization). This is my area of focus, namely stylization, and, though I operate under a slightly different definition of stylization than does Rampton, we seem to have enough overlap to argue similar points in recent works (don't you just love/hate when something you wrote but haven't published yet comes out in an article by a highly respected academic in your (sub)field?).

Anyway... if anyone else has read this and wants to chat about it, feel free. Otherwise, let this thread be a place where we can chat about interesting articles we read more generally.

Cheers!