Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities

An account of the Fisher Speak project which documents the language of the Scottish East Coast GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748691777','ISBN:9780748691784']); Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and post-industrial societies are constructed a