Ronald K S Macaulay

Biographic Data

ID94018
NAMERonald K S Macaulay
GIVEN NAMESRonald K S
FAMILY NAMEMacaulay
SIGNATUREMACAULAY R K S
AFFILIATIONSPitzer College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS61
TOTAL CITATIONS228
AUTHOR COUNT60
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX8

  • Polyphonic monologues: Quoted direct speech in oral narratives

    Open AccessRonald K S MacaulayARTICLEIPrA Papers in Pragmatics2022

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  • The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology

    Donald Brenneis, Ronald K S MacaulayBOOKMatrix of Language2018

  • Grammar and Social Class

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Both terms in this title are problematic. Grammar is sometimes used in a very broad sense, as when Chomsky (1965, p. 4) says that the grammar of a language “purports to be a description of the ideal speaker‐hearer's intrinsic competence.”

  • Adolescents and identity

    Ronald K S MacaulayARTICLEIntercultural Pragmatics2009Cited by: 1References: 13

    Adolescence is a period of experimentation in many kinds of behavior. The examples in the present paper come from recordings of working-class adolescents made in Glasgow in 1997, 2003, and 2004. They show that these adolescents are adopting new forms of speech including new discourse features that seem to have developed locally, rather than having been imported from outside. This paper examines two areas in which the adolescents employ innovative…

  • Warm Climates and Sonority Classes: Not Simply More Vowels and Fewer Consonants

    Open AccessRobert L Munroe, John G Fought et al.ARTICLECross-Cultural Research2009Cited by: 2References: 14

    Previous research has shown that speakers in warm-climate languages make use of relatively more vowels, and speakers in cold-climate languages relatively more consonants. The high sonority (audibility) of the vowel, and its adaptive value under certain conditions, have been invoked to account for its greater frequency in warmer climates. We show here, however, that the above generalization is over-broad, and that sound classes vary across climate…

  • Pure grammaticalization: The development of a teenage intensifier

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLELanguage Variation and Change2006Cited by: 20References: 8

    For the past fifty years, sociolinguistic studies of linguistic change have focused mainly on phonological variables, but recently some attention has been paid to other features, particularly discourse features used by younger speakers that may change within a relatively brief period. This article deals with the appearance of an unusual intensifier “pure” in the speech of adolescents in Glasgow, Scotland. This usage suggests that the Glasgow work…

  • Talk that Counts

    Ronald K S MacaulayBOOKTalk that counts2005

    This work is a sociolinguistic study employing quantitative methods to explore age, gender, and social class differences in the use of a range of discourse features. It is based on a gender-balanced sample of middle-class and working-class adolescents and adults, recorded under the same conditions in Glasgow, Scotland. Unlike studies of phonetic or morphological variation, the study of discourse variation requires samples of talk in action with s…

  • Sociolinguistic Variation. Critical Reflections

    Carmen Fought, Ronald K S MacaulayREVIEWLangage et société2005

    Over the last few decades, variationism was ensnared by a massive series of movements focused on language variation regarding social acts.The multitude of means of approaching and understanding this movement made Labovian sociolinguistics turn to a theoretical conundrum, mostly because this movement was not entirely reliable while interpreting social reality (Moreno, 2012

  • Talk that counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse

    Ronald K S MacaulayBOOKTalk that counts2005

  • Sociolinguistic Variation: Critical Reflections

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Carmen FoughtBOOKSociolinguistic variation2004Cited by: 81

    This volume contains previously unpublished articles by the most prominent sociolinguists working in the study of language variation today, which when taken together both highlight this new direction, as well as critique conventional wisdom in this growing and vital field of study. The book is divided into four sections: methodology; place (the role of context); adult speech; and attitudes and ideologies.

  • The question of genre

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayCHAPTERStyle and Sociolinguistic Variation2002

    If you consult the Oxford English Dictionary, you will find that there are twenty-seven different headings for the word style, none of which corresponds to the way it has been used in recent sociolinguistic investigation. Accordingly, I looked elsewhere and I found two statements that seemed to me to provide a possibly fruitful starting-place for our discussion. The first is from notes of something Greg Guy said at an NWAVE meeting. This may not …

  • Ads Annual Lecture

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLEAmerican Speech2002Cited by: 2References: 10

    Research Article| August 01 2002 ADS ANNUAL LECTURE: I'M OFF TO PHILADELPHIA IN THE MORNING: A SCOTSMAN LOOKS AT DIALECT IN AMERICA RONALD MACAULAY RONALD MACAULAY Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2002) 77 (3): 227–241. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-77-3-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation RONALD MACAULAY; ADS ANNUAL LECTURE: I'M OFF TO …

  • You know, it depends

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2002Cited by: 23References: 17

  • Extremely interesting, very interesting, or only quite interesting? Adverbs and social class

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2002Cited by: 15

    An earlier study, based on interviews with a socially stratified sample showed a difference in the use of adverbs, with the middle-class speakers using derived adverbs in -ly more than twice as frequently as the working-class speakers. An examination of interactions in peer-group same-sex dyads shows a similar socially stratified pattern in both adults and adolescents. There are similar differences in the use of some other adverbs and certain adj…

  • You're like 'why not?' The quotative expressions of Glasgow adolescents

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLEJournal of Sociolinguistics2001Cited by: 44

    The sociolinguistic study of discourse features is still at a very elementary stage, so there is very little evidence available on which to trace changes in the use of such features. One feature that has received attention is the use of non-traditional quotatives in the U.S., particularly by younger speakers, in the past twenty years. The use of be like as a quotative has spread from its presumed origin in California to other parts of the U.S. an…

  • Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLEJournal of Linguistic Anthropology2001Cited by: 3

    Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation. Francois Recanati. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.360 pp

  • Locating Dialect in Discourse: The Language of Honest Men and Bonnie Lassies in Ayr

    Ana R Luís, Ronald K S MacaulayARTICLELanguage1999

  • Language and Scottish Literature

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Ronald Macaulay et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

    This practical introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature includes material on:varieties of Scots and Scottish English; linguistic approaches to literary studies; the grammar of texts; vocabulary; metaphor; poetic metre; language in use; point of view; narrative; stereotypes of the Scots; discourse; and reading older Scottish texts. Extensive examples demonstrate the application of the t…

  • Standards and Variation in Urban Speech

    Benji Wald, Ronald K S MacaulayARTICLELanguage1999

  • English in Transition: Corpus-Based Studies in Linguistic Variation and Genre Styles

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Ronald Macaulay et al.ARTICLELanguage1999

  • Medieval Dialectology

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Ronald Macaulay et al.ARTICLELanguage1997

  • The Adverbs of Authority

    Ronald K S MacaulayARTICLEEnglish World-Wide A Journal of…1995Cited by: 2

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  • Stories, Community, and Place: Narratives from Middle America. Barbara JOHNSTONE

    Open AccessRonald K S MacaulayARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1994

  • Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village. Elinor OCHS

    Open AccessRonald K S Macaulay, Ronald MacaulayARTICLEAmerican Ethnologist1994

  • Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language

    Ronald K S Macaulay, Ronald Macaulay et al.ARTICLELanguage1993