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List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with University of Aberdeen plays a role.

Titles

Doric: The dialect of North-East Scotland

J. Derrick McClure

[Varieties of English Around the World, T8] 2002. vi, 219 pp. | monograph

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Scots and its Literature

J. Derrick McClure

[Varieties of English Around the World, G14] 1996. vi, 218 pp. | monograph

Subjects English linguistics | Germanic linguisticsEnglish literature & literary studies

Articles (17) | Order by:

McColl Millar, Robert 2017 Bann & Corbett. 2015. Spelling Scots. The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700–2000

English World-Wide 38:1 pp. 121–124 | book review

Barras, William 2015 Lancashire

In: Researching Northern English, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G55] pp. 271–292

Keywords cultural and historical context of Lancashire | data collection | definite article reduction | phonological variation | rhoticity

Jager, Bernadet & Alexandra A. Cleland 2015 Connecting the research fields of lexical ambiguity and figures of speech: Polysemy effects for conventional metaphors and metonyms

The Mental Lexicon 10:1 pp. 133–151 | article

Coyle, Do 2014 Motivating teachers and learners as researchers

In: Motivation and Foreign Language Learning: From theory to practice, Lasagabaster, David, Aintzane Doiz & Juan Manuel Sierra (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 40] pp. 51–69

Keywords CLIL | dialogic practices | learner-teacher research | strategic engagement | successful learning

Ingold, Timothy 2015 The creativity of undergoing

Pragmatics & Cognition 22:1 pp. 124–139 | article

Fioratou, Evridiki & Stephen J. Cowley 2011 Insightful thinking: Cognitive dynamics and material artifacts

In: Distributed Language, Cowley, Stephen J. (ed.) [Benjamins Current Topics, 34] pp. 57–80

Durham, Mercedes 2011 Right dislocation in Northern England: Frequency and use — perception meets reality

English World-Wide 32:3 pp. 257–279 | article

Keywords right dislocation | gender | Yorkshire English | age | variation

McClure, J. Derrick 2010 The distinctiveness of Scots: Perceptions and reality

In: Varieties of English in Writing: The written word as linguistic evidence, Hickey, Raymond (ed.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G41] p. 99

Fioratou, Evridiki & Stephen J. Cowley 2009 Insightful thinking: Cognitive dynamics and material artifacts

Pragmatics & Cognition 17:3 pp. 549–572 | article

McColl Millar, Robert 2008 The origins and development of Shetland dialect in light of dialect contact theories

English World-Wide 29:3 pp. 237–267 | article

Keywords Scots | Shetland | New Dialect Formation | Norn | Founder Effect

Watson, Cate 2008 Small stories, positioning analysis, and the doing of professional identities in learning to teach

Narrative Inquiry 17:2 pp. 371–389 | article

McColl Millar, Robert 2008 Kailyard, conservatism and Scots in the Statistical Accounts of Scotland

In: New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics: Selected papers from 12 ICEHL, Glasgow, 21–26 August 2002. Volume II: Lexis and Transmission, Kay, Christian, Carole Hough & Irené Wotherspoon (eds.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 252] pp. 163–176

McColl Millar, Robert 2003 Review of Urban Scots Dialect Writing by Anette I. Hagan (2002)

English World-Wide 24:1 pp. 122–126 | book review

McColl Millar, Robert 2003 Some suggestions for explaining the origin and development of the definite article in English

In: Pathways of Change: Grammaticalization in English, Fischer, Olga, Anette Rosenbach & Dieter Stein (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 53] pp. 275–310

Pearson, David G. & Robert H. Logie 2003 Working Memory and Mental Synthesis: A dual-task approach

In: Spatial Cognition: Foundations and applications, Ó Nualláin, Seán (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 26] pp. 347–359

Allan, Alasdair 1998 A Sermon I Scots Preach't at King's College Chaipel, Aiberdeen, Mey 1996

English World-Wide 19:2 pp. 261–273 | article

Knight, Dawn, Anne O’Keeffe, Geraldine Mark, Christopher Fitzgerald, Justin McNamara, Svenja Adolphs, Benjamin Cowan, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr & Sandrine Peraldi Indicating engagement in online workplace meetings: The role of backchannelling head nods

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article