Review of the hardback: 'It is difficult to do justice to this book in one review. It is complex, lucidly written … a major contribution to the field and deserves to be cited as a key text by researchers in cultural studies, sociology, linguistics and education for many years to come.' British Journal of Sociology of Education Review of the hardback: '…a beautifully realised work of mature scholarship and highly readable … One could hand the book to a student and say, without much exaggeration, 'Read this, and then follow up the sources, and you will be a fully formed sociolinguist' … It is a spectacular book.' The Journal of Sociolinguistics Review of the hardback: '… leads to extremely important insights into leaky boundaries between schools and the wider socio-cultural world, capable of challenging many established assumptions about language in education …' Language Learning Journal Review of the hardback: 'Rampton pays critical homage to both Dell Hymes and John Gumperz … Combining interactional analysis with capacious theoretical argument, Language in Late Modernity exemplifies the best of their tradition of ethnography sociolinguistics …' Journal of Anthropological Research Review of the hardback:'In light of the fact that Rampton is fully successful in maintaining this delicate balancing act between the Scylla of constructivism and the Charybdis of essentialism, this is a book that should be required reading for all sociolinguists of whatever ilk.' Belgian Journal of English Language and Literature