Cecelia Cutler received her Ph.D. from New York University in 2002. She is currently an associate professor at Lehman College. Her research explores the speech practices of white Hip Hoppers and how they construct their authenticity linguistically and discursively. She has published pieces in the International Journal of Bilingualism, Journal of Sociolinguistics, Language and Linguistics Compass, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Language Variation and Change, and Language and Education.
The book's six chapters complement each other well in terms of their focal points and represent a welcome integration of quantitative and qualitative analyses of variation, discourse and interaction. The findings offer a range of insights with relevance for sociolinguistic theory. - JANNIS ANDROUTSOPOULOS, Institut fur Germanistik, Universitat Hamburg