Sociolinguistics in Scotland /

This volume 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.' Dealing with all levels of language, each ch...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lawson, Robert, 1982- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Subjects:	Sociolinguistics > Scotland. Scotland > Languages. Languages in contact > Scotland. Language and languages > Variation > Scotland. Language planning > Scotland. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics.

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 Schützler
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.