Doric

The dialect of North-East Scotland

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J. Derrick McClure | University of Aberdeen
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The dialect of North-East Scotland, one of the most distinctive and best preserved in the country, survives as both a proudly maintained mark of local identity and the vehicle for a remarkable regional literature. The present study, after placing the dialect in its historical, geographical and social context, discusses in some detail a selection of previous accounts of its distinctive characteristics of phonology and grammar, showing that its shibboleths have been well recognised, and have remained consistent, over a long period. Passages of recorded speech are then examined, with extensive use of phonetic transcription. Finally, a representative selection of written texts, dating from the eighteenth century to the present and illustrating a wide variety of styles and genres, are presented with detailed annotations. A full glossary is also included. This study clearly demonstrates both the individuality of the dialect and the richness of the local culture of which it is an integral part.
[Varieties of English Around the World, T8] 2002.  vi, 219 pp.
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“This book is a great contribution to the VEAW series. The strong focus on actual data and representative spoken and written texts fulfills two functions at the same time. On the one hand, it allows readers to verify and update the analyses presented in Chs. 1-3, and on the other, the book contributes to the preservation and documentation of an endangered variety of a mostly unknown, or at least unrecognized language, Scots.”
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Cited by 6 other publications

Brato, Thorsten
2014. Accent Variation and Change in North-East Scotland: The Case of (HW) in Aberdeen. In Sociolinguistics in Scotland,  pp. 32 ff. DOI logo
Corbett, John
2014. Syntactic Variation: Evidence from the Scottish Corpus of Text and Speech. In Sociolinguistics in Scotland,  pp. 258 ff. DOI logo
Foulkes, Paul
2020. Phonological Variation. In The Handbook of English Linguistics,  pp. 407 ff. DOI logo
Kingstone, Sydney
2015. “Scottish”, “English” or “foreign”. English World-Wide. A Journal of Varieties of English 36:3  pp. 315 ff. DOI logo
McClure, J. Derrick
2011. Scottish literature on the international scene: evidence from the National Library'sBibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 32:4  pp. 387 ff. DOI logo
Needler, Claire Louise & Jamie Fairbairn
2021. ‘How Do You Feel About the Language That You Use?'. In Transformative Pedagogical Perspectives on Home Language Use in Classrooms [Advances in Early Childhood and K-12 Education, ],  pp. 151 ff. DOI logo

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Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
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U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2001056475 | Marc record