Standards and variation in urban speech : examples from Lowland Scots / 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...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Macaulay, Ronald K. S.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., ©1997.
Series:	Varieties of English around the world. General series ; v. 20.
Subjects:	Scots language > Spoken Scots. Scots language > Variation. Scots language > Standardization. Urban dialects > Scotland. Urban dialects. Scotland.