Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities - Couverture rigide

Millar, Robert McColl; Barras, William; Bonnici, Lisa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748691774 ISBN 13 : 9780748691777

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and post-industrial societies are constructed and perceived more often than not, these changes have been detrimental to the integrity of traditional dialects. The forces involved are most perceptible in loss of local lexis this has been barely touched upon in the literature, primarily because the study of lexical variation and change has proved considerably more problematical in methodological terms than its phonological and morphosyntactic equivalents. This book considers these theoretical and methodological issues in relation to a representative sample of fishing communities along Scotland's east coast, in most of which the trade is now moribund. Can the lexical variation and change found in these communities be perceived as primary evidence for dialect death? It advances our understanding of lexical variation and change. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of lexical attrition in highly discrete traditional dialects. It presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of whether language death and dialect death can be considered aspects of the same phenomenon.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert McColl Millar is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. William Barras is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. Lisa Bonnici is Research Assistant in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748691774
• ISBN 13: 9780748691777
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible