English in Scotland

McClure, J. Derrick

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“…In Scotland, this process was happening in the Lowlands in the burghs and at the royal court. The emerging standardizing vernacular was Scots, a language closely related to English because of their common Germanic roots, but distant enough on linguistic, social and political grounds (McClure 1994;Macafee and Aitken 2002). From the mid-sixteenth century, however, influences of English on its northern cousin started to increase (Devitt 1989).…”

Section: Language Contact In Early-modern Polandmentioning

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Code-switching in the records of a Scottish brotherhood in early modern Poland-Lithuania

Kopaczyk

2013

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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This paper discusses code-switching in the records of a Protestant brotherhood which were kept by Scottish emigrants in the Polish city of Lublin in the late 17th century. This manuscript material has not been analyzed linguistically yet. Indeed, Scottish migration to the Continent in the early modern period has only recently been studied with more attention by historians while a linguistic assessment of the writings composed by the Scots in the emigrant context is still pending. The analysis shows how Latin, the universal language of administration, and Polish, the language of the host community, helped Scottish writers to construct authoritative and context-sensitive texts, or literacy events (Sebba 2012). The discussion identifies pragmatic and discourse-related differences between switches to Latin and to Polish, and pays due attention to the questions of the socio-historical background, language status, genre and channel in the context of historical code-switching.

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Section: Language Contact In Early-modern Polandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Code-switching in the records of a Scottish brotherhood in early modern Poland-Lithuania

Kopaczyk

2013

Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics

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The Handbook of World Englishes

Kachru¹,

Kachru²,

Nelson³

2006

The Handbook of World Englishes

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Phonological Differences between Received Pronunciation and Standard Scottish English

Cao¹,

Jin²

2018

Proceedings of the 2017 International Seminar on Social Science and Humanities Research (SSHR 2017)

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Abstract. Native English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of accents and dialects. English accents are part of English dialects. Any dialect of English has unique features in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. The term accent describes only the first of these, namely, pronunciation. In the UK, accents and dialects vary widely across its different regions. The aim of this paper is to explore phonological differences between Received Pronunciation and Standard Scottish English. Based on some collected speech data and application of speech analysis software Praat, their phonological distinctions are mainly discussed in vowels, consonants and prosody. The research on accents and dialects across the UK plays a critical role in the study of English Phonetics and Phonology. Investigating phonological differences between Received Pronunciation and Standard Scottish English is of great significance in English pronunciation education. IntroductionThe Received Pronunciation has been given particular prestige by sociolinguistic factors in parts of Britain [4]. It has been seen as the accent of those with power, wealth, and influence [5]. In Scotland, Standard Scottish English may be defined as the characteristic speech of the professional class and the accepted norm in schools [6]. With both Received Pronunciation and Standard Scottish English being given particular prestige in England and Scotland respectively, it is proper and necessary to explore distinctions between them. These two dialects differ in many aspects such as pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary as well as expressions, with their phonological distinctions being the most obvious. In this paper, their phonological differences are mainly discussed in vowels, consonants and prosody. Phonological study of English dialects and accents is of great significance in helping English learners especially foreign ones become more sensitive to different English varieties and acquire English speech better.

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English in Scotland

Cited by 6 publications

References 228 publications

Code-switching in the records of a Scottish brotherhood in early modern Poland-Lithuania

Code-switching in the records of a Scottish brotherhood in early modern Poland-Lithuania

The Handbook of World Englishes

Phonological Differences between Received Pronunciation and Standard Scottish English

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