Linguapax
Linguistic Attrition; Linguistic Creation
Date: 03-Dec-2011 - 03-Dec-2011
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
Contact: Robert McColl Millar
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): Gaelic, Scottish; Scots
Meeting Description:
Linguistic attrition; Linguistic creation
A One-Day Symposium organised by FRLSU
Macrobert Building MR302, King's College, University of Aberdeen
10:45-1730, 3 December 2011
The Complexities of Attrition: Change Across the Generations in Lerwick, Shetland
Mercedes Durham (University of Aberdeen)
Attrition in the Dialects of the Scottish Fishing Communities
Will Barras (University of Aberdeen)
Is there a Future for Regional Dialects in Scottish Gaelic Dialects?
Will Lamb (University of Edinburgh)
Cockney Transformed: Who are the Eastenders Now?
Paul Kerswill (University of Lancaster)
The Lexical Choices of James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife (1764-1789) and the Emergence of Scottish Standard English
Janet Cruickshank (University of Aberdeen)
Ane Instructioun for Bairnis to be Learnit in Scottis: a Co-constructive Participatory Study of Scots Language and Literature Use for Social Inclusion in the Secondary Classroom.
Karen Lowing (University of Newcastle)
Fee: £25; Students, Unwaged and OAP: £15
This fee includes a sandwich lunch. Coffee and tea will be available from 1030 on.
The FRLSU December Symposia provide the opportunity for speakers to give in-depth papers in an intimate and sympathetic environment.
Contact Robert McColl Millar (r.millar abdn.ac.uk) for further details