Standards and Variation in Urban Speech: Examples from Lowland Scots

by Ronald K.S. Macaulay

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027248788
• ISBN13: 9789027248787
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 201 Pages