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Standards and Variation in Urban Speech
Examples from Lowland Scots
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English
Published/Copyright:
1997
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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.
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Jan Bernsten, University of Michigan - Flint in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 22:
Macaulay has assembled an interesting collection of chapters that represent his long term commitment to delineating the varieties in the Lowland Scots speech community. Additionally, he has worked to apply this information to illuminate the larger issues of standards and variation in the global community.
Macaulay has assembled an interesting collection of chapters that represent his long term commitment to delineating the varieties in the Lowland Scots speech community. Additionally, he has worked to apply this information to illuminate the larger issues of standards and variation in the global community.
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Table of contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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The rise and fall of the vernacular
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Double standards
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RP R.I.P
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Determining linguistic insecurity
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The sociolinguistic significance of dialect humour
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Urbanity in an urban dialect
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Social class differences
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Consistency and variation
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The adverbs of authority
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Remarkably common eloquence: the aesthetics of urban dialect
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Conclusion
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References
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Index
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