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Sociolinguistics in Scotland

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  1. Robert Lawson

    1. Birmingham City University, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction: An Overview of Language in Scotland

    • Robert Lawson
    Pages 1-14

  3. A Short History of Sociolinguistics in Scotland

    • Ronald Macaulay
    Pages 15-31

  4. Accent Variation and Change in North-East Scotland: The Case of (HW) in Aberdeen

    • Thorsten Brato
    Pages 32-52

  5. A Socio-Articulatory Study of Scottish Rhoticity

    • Eleanor Lawson, James M. Scobbie, Jane Stuart-Smith
    Pages 53-78

  6. Sociolinguistic Variation on the Scottish-English Border

    • Dominic Watt, Carmen Llamas, Daniel Ezra Johnson
    Pages 79-102

  7. Hitting an Edinburgh Target: Immigrant Adolescents’ Acquisition of Variation in Edinburgh English

    • Miriam Meyerhoff, Erik Schleef
    Pages 103-128

  8. Vowel Variation in Scottish Standard English: Accent-Internal Differentiation or Anglicisation?

    • Ole Schützler
    Pages 129-152

  9. Phonological Repetition Effects in Natural Conversation: Evidence from TH-fronting in Fife

    • Lynn Clark
    Pages 153-176

  10. Language and the Influence of the Media: A Scottish Perspective

    • Jane Stuart-Smith, Claire Timmins
    Pages 177-196

  11. What Can Ethnography Tell us about Sociolinguistic Variation over Time? Some Insights from Glasgow

    • Robert Lawson
    Pages 197-219

  12. From Speech to Naming in a Scottish Pakistani Community: The Interplay between Language, Ethnicity and Identity

    • Farhana Alam, Ellen Bramwell
    Pages 220-240

  13. Change in the Fisher Dialects of the Scottish East Coast: Peterhead as a Case Study

    • Robert McColl Millar, Lisa Bonnici, William Barras
    Pages 241-257

  14. Syntactic Variation: Evidence from the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech

    • John Corbett
    Pages 258-276

  15. Code-Switching in ‘Flannan Isles’: A Micro-Interactional Approach to a Bilingual Narrative

    • Cassie Smith-Christmas
    Pages 277-295

  16. Thirty Years Later: Real-Time Change and Stability in Attitudes towards the Dialect in Shetland

    • Mercedes Durham
    Pages 296-318

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 319-336
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Birmingham City University, UK

    Robert Lawson

About the editor

Farhana Alam, University of Glasgow, UK Ellen Bramwell, University of Glasgow, UK Thorsten Brato, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Lynn Clark, University of Canterbury, New Zealand John Corbett, University of Macau, China Mercedes Durham, University of Cardiff, UK Daniel Ezra Johnson, Lancaster University, UK Eleanor Lawson, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK Robert Lawson, Birmingham City University, UK Carmen Llamas, University of York, UK Ronald Macaulay, Pitzer College, California, USA Robert McColl Millar, University of Aberdeen, UK Miriam Meyerhoff, University of Auckland, New Zealand Erik Schleef, University of Manchester, UK James M. Scobbie, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK Ole Schützler, University of Bamberg, Germany Cassie Smith-Christmas, Lews Castle College, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow, UK Claire Timmins, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK Dominic Watt, University of York, UK

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sociolinguistics in Scotland

  • Editors: Robert Lawson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137034717

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-03470-0Published: 22 January 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44192-1Published: 01 January 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-03471-7Published: 22 January 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 336

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics

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