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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

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.

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)

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

Section 8 of a multi-part journal chapter.

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.

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.