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Ben Rampton

British linguist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ107459582 ↗
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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 978-0-582-21791-1.

Harris, Roxy; Rampton, Ben, eds. (2003). The Language, Ethnicity and Race Reader.

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“Ben Rampton” enters the record as british linguist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rampton, British and linguist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107459582. VIAF identifies the subject as 6625918. The Library of Congress control number is n94063452. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1976, 1987 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ben Rampton” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.