Convenors

Ulrike Gut (University of Münster), Ole Schützler (University of Bamberg) & Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow)

Workshop description

Linguistic interest in Scottish Englishes (ScEs) – which encompass the (socio-)linguistic
continuum between the poles of Scottish Standard English (SSE) and Scots (McArthur 1979)
– is wide and varied. Research has been particularly strong in the areas of traditional
dialectology (e.g. Murray 1873; Mather & Speitel 1975–1986), historical linguistics (e.g.
Macafee & Macleod, eds. 1987; Jones, ed. 1997), and modern (urban) dialectology and
sociolinguistics (e.g. Stuart-Smith, Timmins & Tweedie 2007; Smith, Durham & Richards
2013; Stuart-Smith, Lawson & Scobbie 2014; Schützler 2015).

More recently, corpus-linguistic approaches have gained ground (Anderson, ed. 2013;Corbett & Stuart-Smith 2012; Schützler, Gut & Fuchs 2017). The increasing number of corpus-based studies results in both greater knowledge of the specific morphosyntactic, lexical and phonological/phonetic patterns of language use in ScEs, including rare linguistic phenomena, and also an increase in comparability with research on other varieties of English worldwide. Crucially, methodological innovations have arisen alongside these corpus-based approaches, providing tools for a rigorous examination of ScEs across time a