Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities
- Submitting institution
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University of Aberdeen
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 68154997
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 0748691774
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The study of variation in lexical use has long been the ‘Cinderella’ of Sociolinguistics. Generally phonology and, to a lesser extent, morphosyntax have been studied more often, primarily because both systems are highly finite in a way that an individual’s vocabulary is not. Research for this book involved the collection – from a range of scholarly and popular works – and collation of a thesaurus-like corpus, used as the primary source for producing an attractive and open-ended questionnaire, employed, often as part of larger discussions, with volunteers from unique and not often studied communities.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Lexical variation and Attrition is based upon a three year AHRC grant of £250,000 for the project 'Fisher Speak: variation and change in the lexis of the Scottish Fishing Communities' (Grant no. 1129), which ran from 2008 to 2011. Millar was Principal Investigator; briefly Michael Hornby and then jointly Barras and Bonnici were research assistants. It involved considerable involvement with communities along the North Sea coast of Scotland
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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