Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities - Millar, Robert McColl; Barras, William; Bonnici, Lisa
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The modern age has not been kind to traditional dialects. While local pronunciations and structures survive relatively well, native vocabulary is disappearing, to be replaced by words and phrases from the standard or, more often, broadly based vernaculars. This is particularly the case with dialects associated with a disappearing way of life. Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities discusses these changes in relation to the previously highly distinctive dialects associated with the fishing communities of Scotland's east coast. It demonstrates how vocabulary use…mehr

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The modern age has not been kind to traditional dialects. While local pronunciations and structures survive relatively well, native vocabulary is disappearing, to be replaced by words and phrases from the standard or, more often, broadly based vernaculars. This is particularly the case with dialects associated with a disappearing way of life. Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities discusses these changes in relation to the previously highly distinctive dialects associated with the fishing communities of Scotland's east coast. It demonstrates how vocabulary use varies and changes; in particular how words are lost in the face of great social change. Particular emphasis is given to the linguistic behaviour of women throughout the communities, generational factors and what heritage concerns mean linguistically. Using methodologies derived from both sociolinguistics and dialectology, the authors present an engaging and thought-provoking case study for advanced students, researchers and scholars in language and linguistics. Robert McColl Millar is Reader in Linguistics in the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen. William Barras is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. Lisa Marie Bonnici received her PhD in Linguistics from UC Davis and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Aberdeen for the FisherSpeak project. Cover image: The statue of Fisher Jessie and her daughter, Peterhead (c) John Ollason. Cover design: Michael Chatfield
Autorenporträt
Robert McColl Millar is Reader in Linguistics in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (2007), Authority and Identity. A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern Age (2010) and English Historical Sociolinguistics (2012). William Barras is a Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. He has research interests in phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics, dialectology, and the ways in which language is used to shape identity. He has conducted linguistic fieldwork on these topics in East Lancashire, on the Scottish-English border and in Edinburgh, as well as in the coastal fishing communities as part of the Fisher Speak project from which this book developed. Lisa Marie Bonnici received her PhD in Linguistics from UC Davis in 2010. Following this, she carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Aberdeen for the FisherSpeak project. Her research focuses on sociolinguistic variation and change and language ideologies in emerging varieties of English. She currently directs an international program at a college preparatory school in Southern California, where she lives with her son, Oliver, and husband, Richard.