Sociolinguistics in Scotland

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Sociolinguistics in Scotland

edited by Robert Lawson

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Sociolinguistics in Scotland presents a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistic research in Scotland and showcases developments in sociolinguistic theory, method and application, highlighting Scotland's position as a valuable 'sociolinguistic laboratory'. This book is a key resource for those interested in language use in Scotland.

Table of Contents

  • Foreword by Jennifer Smith 1. An Overview of Language in Scotland
  • Robert Lawson 2. A Short History of Sociolinguistics in Scotland
  • Ronald Macaulay 3. Accent Variation and Change in North-East Scotland: The Case of (HW) in Aberdeen
  • Thorsten Brato 4. A Socio-Articulatory Study of Scottish Rhoticity
  • Eleanor Lawson, James M. Scobbie and Jane Stuart-Smith 5. Sociolinguistic Variation in the Scottish-English Border Area
  • Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas and Daniel Ezra Johnson 6. Hitting an Edinburgh Target: Immigrant Adolescents' Acquisition of Variation in Edinburgh English
  • Miriam Meyerhoff and Erik Schleef 7. Vowel Variation in Scottish Standard English: Accent-Internal Diferentiation or Anglicisation?
  • Ole Schutzler 8. Phonological Repetition Effects in Natural Conversation: Evidence from TH-fronting in Fife
  • Lynn Clark 9. Language and the Influence of the Media: A Scottish Perspective
  • Jane Stuart-Smith and Claire Timmins 10. What Can Ethnography Tell us about Sociolinguistic Variation over Time?: Some Insights from Glasgow
  • Robert Lawson 11. From Speech to Naming in a Scottish Pakistani Community: The Interplay between Language, Ethnicity and Identity
  • Farhana Alam and Ellen Bramwell 12. Change in the Fisher Dialects of the Scottish East Coast: Peterhead as a Case Study
  • Robert McColl Millar, with the assistance of Lisa Bonnici and William Barras 13. Syntactic Variation: Evidence from the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech
  • John Corbett 14 . Code-Switching in 'Flannan Isles': A Micro-Interactional Approach to a Bilingual Narrative
  • Cassie Smith-Christmas 15. 30 Years Later: Real-time Change and Stability in Attitudes towards the Dialect of Shetland
  • Mercedes Durham

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