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Macaulay, Ronald Kerr Steven was born on November 3, 1927 in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland. Son of Robert Wilson and Mary Robb (McDermid) Macaulay. came to the United States, 1965.
(Provides an examination of sociolinguistic variation. Thi...)
Provides an examination of sociolinguistic variation. This book takes a quantitative approach to the study of variation, correlating features of discourse with three social categories: social class, gender, and age. The conclusions of the study indicate that age accounts for the greatest number of differences, followed by gender and social class.
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(The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessibl...)
The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others. In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is perfect for general readers and students who want to learn about what it is that linguists do.
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(Taking the readers on a tour through the world of languag...)
Taking the readers on a tour through the world of languages, this book uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to a range of contemporary linguistic knowledge. It covers topics, such as language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others.
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(Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination...)
Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions ‘vernacular’, ‘standard language’, ‘Received Pronunciation’, ‘social class’, and ‘linguistic insecurity’. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods using examples from comedians’ jokes, dialect poetry, formal and informal interviews, and personal narratives, the work illustrates the actual norms that speakers exemplify in various ways.
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(Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis o...)
Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis of the narrative and rhetorical skills employed by working-class Scots in talking about important aspects of their lives. The wide range of devices employed by the speakers and the high quality of the examples provide convincing evidence to reject any possible negative evaluation of working-class speech on the basis of details of non-standard pronunciation and grammar. In addition to this display of linguistic accomplishment the examples examined show how these skills are employed to communicate important aspects of Scottish identity and culture. Although the political status of Scotland has fluctuated over the past four hundred years, the sense of Scottish identity has remained strong. Part of that sense of identity comes from a form of speech that remains markedly distinct from that of the dominant neighbour to the south. There are cultural attitudes that indicate a spirit of independence that is consistent with this linguistic difference. The ways in which the speakers in this book express themselves reveal their beliefs in egalitarianism, independence, and the value of hard work. Extremely Common Eloquence demonstrates how the methods of linguistic analysis can be combined with an investigation into cultural values.
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(Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation ...)
Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation in discourse employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of features such as you know, I mean, adverbs, and pronouns.Unlike many studies of discourse variation that focus on a single social factor, Talk That Counts examines age, gender, and social class differences in a gender-balanced sample of middle-class and working-class adolescents and adults, recorded under the same conditions. Differences between adults and adolescents provided the greatest number of statistically significant results, followed by differences between males and females. The smallest number of statistically significant differences were related to social class. The range of variation underlines the need to look at more than a single extra-linguistic variable when examining discourse. It also shows the dangers of generalizing about social class, for example, on the basis of a limited sample (e.g., adolescent boys).In Talk That Counts, distinguished sociolinguist Ronald Macaulay presents an important new approach to the sociolinguistic investigation of discourse variation.
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Macaulay, Ronald Kerr Steven was born on November 3, 1927 in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland. Son of Robert Wilson and Mary Robb (McDermid) Macaulay. came to the United States, 1965.
Master of Arts, University St. Andrews, 1955; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California at Los Angeles, 1971.
Lecturer, British Institute, Lisbon, Portugal, 1955-1960; lecturer, Brit Council, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1960-1964; assistant professor linguistics, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, 1965-1967; associate professor, Pitzer College, 1967-1973; professor, Pitzer College, since 1973; dean faculty, Pitzer College, 1980-1986.
(Talk That Counts is a sociolinguistic study of variation ...)
(Taking the readers on a tour through the world of languag...)
(Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis o...)
(Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination...)
(The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessibl...)
(Provides an examination of sociolinguistic variation. Thi...)
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Married Janet Grey, July 25, 1956. Children: Harvey, Anna.