Ben Rampton
# Ben Rampton

Michael Benjamin Helter Rampton (born 31 May 1953) is a British linguist.

## Career

Rampton completed a bachelor's degree at the University of York in 1976, and obtained a doctorate at the University of London in 1987. He was elected a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Anthropological Institute.

## Books

* Rampton, Ben (1995). Crossing: Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents. Longman. ISBN 9780582217911.
* Harris, Roxy; Rampton, Ben, eds. (2003). The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader. Routledge. ISBN 9780415276016.
* Rampton, Ben (2006). Language in late modernity: interaction in an urban school. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521812634.
