%0 Book Section %A PĂ©rez-Milans, M %B The Routledge Handbook of Language and Identity %C London, UK %D 2016 %E Preece, P %F discovery:1473886 %I Routledge %K linguistic ethnography, language, identity, late modernity %N 5 %T Language and identity in linguistic ethnography %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1473886/ %X The study of language and identity from the perspective of linguistic ethnography (LE) has received increasing attention during the last decade. Resting upon the social and discursive turns in the social sciences, LE has ontological and epistemological consequences for the way researchers approach language, culture and community, and it has been especially relevant to instability and unpredictability in late modernity. LE originated in the UK, but scholars elsewhere are now drawing it into a fuller account of political economy, a move outlined in the latter part of this paper. %Z This submitted work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/.