Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots: Some Examples from Lowland Scots (Varieties of English Around the World)

Ronald K. S. MacAulay

ISBN 10: 9027248788 / ISBN 13: 9789027248787

Published by John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1997

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 211 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots: Some Examples from Lowland Scots (Varieties of English Around the World)
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027248788
• ISBN 13: 9789027248787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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.