Sociolinguistics in Scotland

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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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.

• Sociolinguistics
• Scotland
• Language
• 15th century
• bilingualism
• English
• history
• history of literature
• identity
• interaction
• language
• linguistics
• media
• phonology
• sociolinguistics
• syntactic
• William James

• Birmingham City University, UK

  Robert Lawson

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

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