Standards and variation in urban speech : examples from Lowland Scots
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Standards and variation in urban speech : examples from Lowland Scots
（Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 20）
J. Benjamins Pub., c1997
- : eur
- : us
Available at 29 libraries
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Kobe Shoin Women's University Library / Kobe Shoin Women's College Library
: eur838/85-1/2012173248
Note
Bibliography: p. [173]-193
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions 'vernacular', 'standard language', 'Received Pronunciation', 'social class', and 'linguistic insecurity'. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods using examples from comedians' jokes, dialect poetry, formal and informal interviews, and personal narratives, the work illustrates the actual norms that speakers exemplify in various ways.
Table of Contents
- 1. Preface
- 2. Introduction
- 3. The rise and fall of the vernacular
- 4. Double standards
- 5. RP R.I.P
- 6. Determining linguistic insecurity
- 7. The sociolinguistic significance of dialect humour
- 8. Urbanity in an urban dialect
- 9. Social class differences
- 10. Consistency and variation
- 11. The adverbs of authority
- 12. Remarkably common eloquence: the aesthetics of urban dialect
- 13. Conclusion
- 14. References
- 15. Index
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