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Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Extremely common eloquence: Constructing Scottish identity through narrative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2007

Catherine Evans Davies
Catherine Evans Davies
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English, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 USA, cdavies@bama.ua.edu
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Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Extremely common eloquence: Constructing Scottish identity through narrative. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2005. 299. Pb. $81.

The title frames Macaulay's volume concisely. For British English speakers (but perhaps less so for Americans), the collocation “extremely common eloquence” plays on the negative stereotype that M is challenging: that of working-class people as taciturn and inarticulate. In the subtitle we find clues to the “language in use” orientation of the book, the British regional focus, and the primary data.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 427 - 431
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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