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Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Standards and variation in urban speech: Examples from Lowland Scots. (Varieties of English around the world, 20). Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1997. Pp. x, 201. Hb $65.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1999

Deborah Cameron
Deborah Cameron
Affiliation:
Programme in Literary Linguistics, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland G1 1XH, d.j.cameron@strath.ac.uk
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Abstract

The central idea that informs Macaulay's book is aptly expressed in a passage he quotes from Sapir (1929:214):

Language is primarily a cultural or social product and must be understood as such ... It is peculiarly important that linguists, who are often accused, and accused justly, of failure to look beyond the pretty patterns of their subject-matter, should become aware of what their science may mean for the interpretation of human conduct in general. (138)

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Language in Society , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 454 - 457
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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