Betsy Rymes is Professor of Educational Linguistics at The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

'In this volume, Betsy Rymes captures the advances that must be attained to democratize language use and communication: reconfigure speakers' expertise, reinforce speakers' agency, and create epistemic communities, in which language researchers and citizens participate to foreground local forms of expertise and to build common ground production of linguistic concepts, and ideologies.' Luisa Martin Rojo, Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its Study; 1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise; 2. Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language; 3. Doing citizen sociolinguistics: the medium is the method; 4. Fomenting arrest and wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops; 5. Citizen sociolinguistics and narrative; 6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics; Conclusion: why we must talk about language.

Betsy Rymes is Professor of Educational Linguistics at The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

'In this volume, Betsy Rymes captures the advances that must be attained to democratize language use and communication: reconfigure speakers' expertise, reinforce speakers' agency, and create epistemic communities, in which language researchers and citizens participate to foreground local forms of expertise and to build common ground production of linguistic concepts, and ideologies.' Luisa Martin Rojo, Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its Study; 1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise; 2. Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language; 3. Doing citizen sociolinguistics: the medium is the method; 4. Fomenting arrest and wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops; 5. Citizen sociolinguistics and narrative; 6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics; Conclusion: why we must talk about language.

Betsy Rymes is Professor of Educational Linguistics at The University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

'In this volume, Betsy Rymes captures the advances that must be attained to democratize language use and communication: reconfigure speakers' expertise, reinforce speakers' agency, and create epistemic communities, in which language researchers and citizens participate to foreground local forms of expertise and to build common ground production of linguistic concepts, and ideologies.' Luisa Martin Rojo, Professor in Linguistics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• Introduction: How We Talk About Language: Citizen Sociolinguistics and its Study; 1. Citizen's arrest: the 'citizen' and sociolinguistic expertise; 2. Wonderment: the spark that starts talk about language; 3. Doing citizen sociolinguistics: the medium is the method; 4. Fomenting arrest and wonderment: citizen sociolinguistic feedback loops; 5. Citizen sociolinguistics and narrative; 6. Acts of citizen sociolinguistics; Conclusion: why we must talk about language.