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Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. (2023)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2023). Dominant discourses in higher education. Book review: Kinchin, I. M. and Gravett, K. (2022) Dominant discourses in higher education: critical perspectives, cartographies and practice. London: Bloomsbury. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 26, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi26.1000

A book review of Khan, K., Gurbutt, G. and Cragg, R. (2022) Changes in the higher education sector: contemporary drivers and the pursuit of excellence. London: Anthem Press. (2022)
Journal Article
Scott, M. R. (2022). A book review of Khan, K., Gurbutt, G. and Cragg, R. (2022) Changes in the higher education sector: contemporary drivers and the pursuit of excellence. London: Anthem Press. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 24, https://doi.org/10.47408/jldhe.vi24.904

The lexicography of Scots (2022)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. The lexicography of Scots. In The New Cambridge Companion to the History of the English Language. Cambridge University Press (CUP). Manuscript submitted for publication

This chapter considers the history of Scots dictionaries in relation to their purposes and the dominant contemporary perceptions of the Scots language. The twenty-first century Scots Dictionary for Schools (Scots Abc) mobile phone application encoura... Read More about The lexicography of Scots.

Book review : Rhetorics of Names and Naming (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2021). Book review : Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 69(4), 51-54. https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2021.2348

Review of Rhetorics of Names and Naming. Edited By Star Medzerian Vanguri. New York & London: Routledge. 2016. Pp. xi + 224. $52.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 9781138599574; $190 (Hardback), ISBN: 9781138910638; $47.65 (E-book), ISBN: 9781315693347.

I : English language (Onomastics) (2021)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2021). I : English language (Onomastics). Year's Work in English Studies, 100(1), 1-158. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maab001

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguist... Read More about I : English language (Onomastics).

The Scottish dictionary tradition (2020)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2020). The Scottish dictionary tradition. In S. Ogilvie (Ed.), Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries (315-323). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (CUP)

I : English language (Onomastics) (2020)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2020). I : English language (Onomastics). Year's Work in English Studies, 99(1), 1-185. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maaa001

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology; 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Dialectology and Sociolinguis... Read More about I : English language (Onomastics).

Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (2019)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2019). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67(4), 236-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2019.1677052

Book review

Review : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names, edited by P. E. Raper, L. A. Möller and L. T. Du Plessis (3rd edn., Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2014) (2019)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2019). Review : Dictionary of Southern African Place Names, edited by P. E. Raper, L. A. Möller and L. T. Du Plessis (3rd edn., Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2014). Names: A Journal of Onomastics, 67(4), 236-238. https://doi.org/10.1080/00277738.2019.1677052

Book review.

I : English language (Onomastics) (2019)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2019). I : English language (Onomastics). Year's Work in English Studies, 98(1), 1-166. https://doi.org/10.1093/ywes/maz004

This chapter has fourteen sections: 1. General; 2. History of English Linguistics; 3. Phonetics and Phonology (not covered this year); 4. Morphology; 5. Syntax; 6. Semantics; 7. Lexicography, Lexicology, and Lexical Semantics; 8. Onomastics; 9. Diale... Read More about I : English language (Onomastics).

Onomastics (2018)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2018). Onomastics. Year's Work in English Studies, 97(1),

Section 8 of a multi-part journal chapter.

Review of Ainiala, Terhi & Jan-Ola Östman, Eds. (2017) Socio-onomastics : The Pragmatics of Names (2018)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2018). Review of Ainiala, Terhi & Jan-Ola Östman, Eds. (2017) Socio-onomastics : The Pragmatics of Names. Linguistic Landscape, 4(2), 200-203. https://doi.org/10.1075/ll.00005.sco

Book review.

The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition) (2017)
Book
Scott, M. (2017). M. Scott (Ed.), The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The Concise Scots Dictionary (second edition) is the ideal reference work for readers, learners, speakers and students of the Scots language. Updated in 2017 from the first edition in 1985, it is the single most authoritative volume on the history, p... Read More about The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition).

brief brief : a riddle (2017)
Other
Kendall, J. (in press). brief brief : a riddle. Amsterdam

A creative prose-poetry exploration of the fragmentary process of translation, including a visual representation of translation in process of an anglo-saxon riddle.

Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs (2017)
Journal Article
Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs. C21 Literature: journal of 21st-century writings, 5(1), 5. https://doi.org/10.16995/c21.14

This paper considers the visions of Scottish identity projected in twenty-first century, post-devolution Scots literature, and seeks to read them against Paul Gilroy’s Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) which examines the protean identities of post-impe... Read More about Melancholia and conviviality in modern literary Scots : Sanghas, Sengas and Shairs.

Review : Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination By M. E. Kite and B. E. Whitley, Jr (3rd edn, 2016) New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 744pp. (2017)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2017). Review : Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination By M. E. Kite and B. E. Whitley, Jr (3rd edn, 2016) New York & Abingdon: Routledge, 744pp. Journal of Language and Discrimination, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.1558/jld.34204

Book review.

Scots word of the season : bogle (2016)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2016). Scots word of the season : bogle. ˜The œbottle imp, 20,

Scots word of the season : lift (2016)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2016). Scots word of the season : lift. ˜The œbottle imp, 19,

Attitudes to Scots : insights from the Toponymicon (2016)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2016). Attitudes to Scots : insights from the Toponymicon. In G. Puzey, & L. Kostanski (Eds.), Names and Naming (137-152). Multilingual Matters

Names and dialectology (2016)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2016). Names and dialectology. In C. Hough (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming (488-501). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199656431.013.20

This chapter explores the relationship between the study of language varieties and the study of names, taking account of the historical developments in theory and methodology. Analysis of regional, minority, and non-standard language varieties rarely... Read More about Names and dialectology.