ISBN:
1306483670
,
9781306483674
,
9781137034717
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 336 p)
,
ill., maps
Parallel Title:
Print version Sociolinguistics in Scotland
DDC:
306.4409411
Keywords:
Languages in contact
;
Language and languages Variation
;
Language planning
;
Sociolinguistics
;
Electronic books
;
Scotland Languages
Abstract:
〈EM〉Sociolinguistics in Scotland〈/EM〉 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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; The International Phonetic Alphabet; Map of Scotland; 1 Introduction: An Overview of Language in Scotland; 2 A Short History of Sociolinguistics in Scotland; 3 Accent Variation and Change in North-East Scotland: The Case of (HW) in Aberdeen; 4 A Socio-Articulatory Study of Scottish Rhoticity; 5 Sociolinguistic Variation on the Scottish-English Border; 6 Hitting an Edinburgh Target: Immigrant Adolescents' Acquisition of Variation in Edinburgh English
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Vowel Variation in Scottish Standard English: Accent-Internal Differentiation or Anglicisation?8 Phonological Repetition Effects in Natural Conversation: Evidence from TH-fronting in Fife; 9 Language and the Influence of the Media: A Scottish Perspective; 10 What Can Ethnography Tell us about Sociolinguistic Variation over Time? Some Insights from Glasgow; 11 From Speech to Naming in a Scottish Pakistani Community: The Interplay between Language, Ethnicity and Identity; 12 Change in the Fisher Dialects of the Scottish East Coast: Peterhead as a Case Study
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Syntactic Variation: Evidence from the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech14 Code-Switching in 'Flannan Isles': A Micro-Interactional Approach to a Bilingual Narrative; 15 Thirty Years Later: Real-Time Change and Stability in Attitudes towards the Dialect in Shetland; Subject Index; Author Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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