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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities (Hardcover)
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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities (Hardcover)
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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.
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