Ronald Macaulay
Biographic Data
| ID | 97315 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald Macaulay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald |
| FAMILY NAME | Macaulay |
| SIGNATURE | MACAULAY R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Grammar and Social Class
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.”
Pure grammaticalization
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…
The Radical Conservatism of Scots
Although Saussure (1986: 200) may have had the right idea when he claimed that “there are as many dialects as places,” the notion of place is complex (Johnstone, this volume) and the term dialect tends to be associated with the kind of relic communities described by Wolfram (this volume). It is, however, not only small communities that have dialects; there are also what I have called magna-dialects (Macaulay 2002), such as American English and Au…
The question of genre
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 …
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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
Extremely interesting, very interesting, or only quite interesting? Adverbs and social class
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
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
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation. Francois Recanati. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.360 pp
Language and Scottish Literature
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…
English in Transition
Medieval Dialectology
Culture and Language Development
Images of English
Generally Speaking
Linguistics
Double Standards1
One of the unsatisfactory characteristics of much recent work in socio-linguistics has been the indiscriminate use of the labels "Standard" and "Nonstandard," particularly in dealing with varieties of language such as Black English. The greatest danger in the situation has been the tendency to identify Standard English with an upper class accent instead of treating the two notions as separate, though related, phenomena. The definition of the term…
You're like 'why not?' The quotative expressions of Glasgow adolescents
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…
You know, it depends
Pure grammaticalization
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…
Extremely interesting, very interesting, or only quite interesting? Adverbs and social class
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…
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation. Francois Recanati. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.360 pp
Ads Annual Lecture
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 …
Double Standards1
One of the unsatisfactory characteristics of much recent work in socio-linguistics has been the indiscriminate use of the labels "Standard" and "Nonstandard," particularly in dealing with varieties of language such as Black English. The greatest danger in the situation has been the tendency to identify Standard English with an upper class accent instead of treating the two notions as separate, though related, phenomena. The definition of the term…
Double Standards1
One of the unsatisfactory characteristics of much recent work in socio-linguistics has been the indiscriminate use of the labels "Standard" and "Nonstandard," particularly in dealing with varieties of language such as Black English. The greatest danger in the situation has been the tendency to identify Standard English with an upper class accent instead of treating the two notions as separate, though related, phenomena. The definition of the term…
Linguistics
Generally Speaking
Images of English
Culture and Language Development
Medieval Dialectology
Language and Scottish Literature
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…
English in Transition
You're like 'why not?' The quotative expressions of Glasgow adolescents
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
Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: An Essay on Metarepresentation. Francois Recanati. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.360 pp
The question of genre
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 …
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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
Extremely interesting, very interesting, or only quite interesting? Adverbs and social class
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…
The Radical Conservatism of Scots
Although Saussure (1986: 200) may have had the right idea when he claimed that “there are as many dialects as places,” the notion of place is complex (Johnstone, this volume) and the term dialect tends to be associated with the kind of relic communities described by Wolfram (this volume). It is, however, not only small communities that have dialects; there are also what I have called magna-dialects (Macaulay 2002), such as American English and Au…
Pure grammaticalization
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…
Grammar and Social Class
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.”
Linguistics (14 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Class (philosophy (4 works) · History (4 works)