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Publication details [#29059]

Macafee, Caroline. 1994. Traditional dialect in the modern world: A Glasgow case study. Peter Lang. xiii + 284 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
contextualization | language loss | lexicon | social class | standard1 vs. dialect2
Language as a subject
English | Scottish
ISBN
3-631-47551-9

Annotation

This book discusses lexicon decline in the Scottish dialect of Glasgow. The results of the questionnaire study involving Glasgow working-class speakers of both sexes are interpreted in terms of changes in social life and the spread of standardised English.

Reviewed by

Görlach, Manfred. 1995. Review of $Traditional dialect in the modern world: A Glasgow case study.
Milroy, Lesley. 1995. Review of $Traditional dialect in the modern world: A Glasgow case study.