Selected Publications
Books
Rymes, B. (2023). Studying language in interaction: A practical guide to communicative repertoire and sociolinguistic diversity. Routledge.
Rymes, B. (2020). How we talk about language: Exploring citizen sociolinguistics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Rymes, B. (2016). Classroom discourse analysis: A tool for critical reflection (2nd Ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
Rymes, B. (2014). Communicating beyond language: Everyday encounters with diversity. New York, NY: Routledge.
Wortham, S.E.F., & Rymes, B. (Eds.). (2002). The linguistic anthropology of education. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Rymes, B. (2001). Conversational borderlands: Language and identity in an alternative urban high school. New York: Teachers College Press.
Articles & Chapters
Rymes, B. (2020). Watch your language! Citizen sociolinguistics in the classroom. Phi Delta Kappan, 101(5).
Rymes, B., & Smail, G. (2020). Citizen sociolinguists scaling back. Applied Linguistics Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2019-0133
Rymes, B., & Leone-Pizzighella, A. (2020). Making the familiar change: Language socialization via contrapuntal interaction in a U.S. high school language arts class. In M. Burdelski, & K. Howard (Eds.), Language socialization in classrooms. Cambridge University Press.
Rymes, B., & Leone-Pizzighella, A. (2018). YouTube-based accent challenge narratives: A Web 2.0 method for studying the social value of accent. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 250, 137–163.
Leone-Pizzighella, A., & Rymes, B. (2017). Gathering everyday metacommentary: A methodology to counteract institutional erasure. Language & Communication 59, 53–65.
Rymes, B., Flores, N. & Pomerantz, A. (2016). The Common Core State Standards and English learners: Finding the silver lining. Language.
Rymes, B. (2014). Communicative repertoire. In B. Street & C. Leung (Eds.), Routledge companion to English language studies. New York, NY and London, England: Routledge.
Rymes, B. (2014). Marking communicative repertoire through metacommentary. In A. Creese & A. Blackledge (Eds.), Heteroglossia as practice and pedagogy. New York, NY & London, England: Springer.
Rymes, B., & Leone, A. (2014). Citizen sociolinguistics: A new media methodology for understanding language and social life. Working papers in educational linguistics, 29(2), 25–44.
Rymes, B. (2012). Recontextualizing YouTube: From micro-macro to mass-mediated communicative repertoires. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 43(2), 214–227.
Rymes, B. (2011). Deference, denial, and beyond: A repertoire approach to mass media and schooling. Review of Research in Education, 35(1), 208–238.
Rymes, B. (2010). Classroom discourse analysis: A focus on communicative repertoires. In N. Hornberger & S. McKay (Eds.), Sociolinguistics and language education. London, England: Multilingual Matters.
Rymes, B. (2010). Why and why not? Narrative approaches in the social sciences. Narrative Inquiry, 20(2).
