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
Outputs (67)
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 publicationThis 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.2021.2348Review 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/maab001This 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/maaa001This 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/10.1080/00277738.2019.1677052Book 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/10.1080/00277738.2019.1677052Book 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/maz004This 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.scoBook review.
The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition) (2017)
Book
Scott, M. (2017). M. Scott (Ed.), The concise Scots dictionary (2nd edition). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University PressThe 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. AmsterdamA 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/c21.14This 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.34204Book review.
Scots word of the season : bogle (2016)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2016). Scots word of the season : bogle. The bottle imp, 20,
Scots word of the season : lift (2016)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2016). Scots word of the season : lift. The bottle 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/9780199656431.013.20This 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.
Scots word of the season : besom (2015)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2015). Scots word of the season : besom. The bottle imp, 17,
Book review : Language in Scotland : corpus-based studies. Wendy Anderson (ed.) (2015)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2015). Book review : Language in Scotland : corpus-based studies. Wendy Anderson (ed.). Scottish Language, 34,
Scots word of the season : clamjamfry (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2014). Scots word of the season : clamjamfry. The bottle imp, 16,
Scots word of the season : croup (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2014). Scots word of the season : croup. The bottle imp, 15,
Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson (2014)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2014). Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson. The bottle imp, 15,In this edited volume, Robert Lawson brings together scholars with diverse specialisms including phonology, syntax, lexicology and onomastics. Jennifer Smith's Foreword sets the scene by drawing attention to the many varieties of language encountered... Read More about Book review : Sociolinguistics in Scotland edited by Robert Lawson.
Scottish slang (2014)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2014). Scottish slang. In J. Coleman (Ed.), Global English Slang : Methodologies and Perspectives (107-115). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315857787As Görlach has observed, ‘There is no dictionary or comprehensive monograph devoted to Scottish slang’ (2002: 119). This lacuna can be partially explained by the history of attitudes to the two language varieties known as Scots and Scottish English,... Read More about Scottish slang.
Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (eds) : Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries. Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. (2013)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2013). Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language. International Journal of Lexicography, 26(4), 514-523. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ect015Both of the titles discussed here represent significant firsts. Scotland in Definition is the first book to chart the lexicographical history of two of Scotland’s languages—Scots and Scottish Gaelic—and in doing so it illuminates the progress of proj... Read More about Iseabail Macleod and J. Derrick McClure (eds) : Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries. Susan Rennie : Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots: The Story of the First Historical Dictionary of the Scots Language..
Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie (2013)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2013). Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie. The bottle imp, 13,The Reverend John Jamieson's contribution to Scottish lexicography is central to the historiography of the study of Scots as a distinct variety of language. Furthermore, his methodologies have proven extremely influential for subsequent major Scottis... Read More about Jamieson’s dictionary of Scots : the story of the first historical dictionary of the Scots language by Susan Rennie.
Scots word of the season : sassenach (2013)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2013). Scots word of the season : sassenach. The bottle imp, 13,
Scots word of the season : provost (2013)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2013). Scots word of the season : provost. The bottle imp, 14,
Language, space and power: Reflections on linguistic and spatial turns in urban research (2012)
Journal Article
Vuolteenaho, J., Ameel, L., Newby, A., & Scott, M. (2012). Language, space and power: Reflections on linguistic and spatial turns in urban research
Book review : Globally Speaking : motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN: 9781847690517 (hbk). xii + 337 pages. (2012)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2012). Book review : Globally Speaking : motives for adopting English vocabulary in other languages. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. ISBN: 9781847690517 (hbk). xii + 337 pages
Review Article: Minority languages in the linguistic landscape, edited by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) (2012)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2012). Review Article: Minority languages in the linguistic landscape, edited by Durk Gorter, Heiko F. Marten and Luk Van Mensel (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Current Issues in Language Planning, 13(3), 231-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2012.722381Book review
Scots word of the season : stravaig (2012)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2012). Scots word of the season : stravaig. The bottle imp, 11,
Scots word of the season : leerie (2012)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2012). Scots word of the season : leerie. The bottle imp, 12,
Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire (2011)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2011). Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire. Notes and Queries, 58(3), 438-439. https://doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjr077Part four of The Place-Names of Leicestershire documents the history of the place-names in the fifty-four parishes of Gartree Hundred in the south-east of the county. Study of the toponymic record of this part of Leicestershire is facilitated by thre... Read More about Barrie Cox : the place-names of Leicestershire.
A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay (2011)
Book Chapter
Pendragon, J., & Scott, M. (2011). A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay. In O. Timofeeva, & T. Saily (Eds.), Words in Dictionaries and History (269-286). Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Directions in English place-name studies : An invitation to debate, with a case study of Salford Quays (2011)
Journal Article
Scott, M., & Clark, A. (2011). Directions in English place-name studies : An invitation to debate, with a case study of Salford Quays. Nomina, 34, 27-50Since the beginnings of the English Place-Name Survey (EPNS) in the 1920s, analysis of English place-names has focused mainly on historical questions relating to etymology and the ways that name evidence can shed light on early cultures, medieval... Read More about Directions in English place-name studies : An invitation to debate, with a case study of Salford Quays.
Directions in English place-name studies : An invitation to debate (2011)
Journal Article
Scott, M., & Clark, A. (2011). Directions in English place-name studies : An invitation to debate. Nomina, 34, 27-50
Scots word of the week : ceilidh (2011)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2011). Scots word of the week : ceilidh. The bottle imp, 9,
Scots word of the season : mahoun (2011)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2011). Scots word of the season : mahoun. The bottle imp, 10,
Rethinking the concise scots dictionary for the 21st century (2010)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2010). Rethinking the concise scots dictionary for the 21st century. In J. Considine (Ed.), Current Projects in Historical Lexicography (113-130). Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Scots word of the season : wean (2010)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2010). Scots word of the season : wean. The bottle imp, 7,
Review : O.J. Padel and David Parsons (eds). A commodity of good names : essays in honour of Margaret Gelling (2010)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2010). Review : O.J. Padel and David Parsons (eds). A commodity of good names : essays in honour of Margaret Gelling. Nomina, 33, 187-191
Scots word of the season : kelpie (2010)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2010). Scots word of the season : kelpie. The bottle imp, 8,
Scots word of the season : swither (2009)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2009). Scots word of the season : swither. The bottle imp, 5,
Scots word of the season : eldritch (2009)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2009). Scots word of the season : eldritch. The bottle imp, 6,
Scottish place names (2008)
Book
Scott, M. (2008). Scottish place names. Edinburgh: Black and White PublishingSay It in Scots is a series of pocket books designed to inform and entertain the reader about the wonderful, rich and varied language of Scots. The Scots language is a world of wonderful, historic and evocative words, full of a rich variety that can... Read More about Scottish place names.
Voices from modern literary Glasgow (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Voices from modern literary Glasgow. The bottle imp, 3,
Words, names and culture: place-names and the Scots language (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Words, names and culture: place-names and the Scots language. The journal of Scottish name studies, 2, 85-98
Scots word of the season : pinkie (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Scots word of the season : pinkie. The bottle imp, 3,
Scots word of the season : kailyard (2008)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2008). Scots word of the season : kailyard. The bottle imp, 4,
Unsung Etymologies: lexical and onomastic evidence for the influence of Scots on English (2008)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2008). Unsung Etymologies: lexical and onomastic evidence for the influence of Scots on English. In M. Mooijaart, & M. van der Wal (Eds.), Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography (187-198). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
The Scots continuum and descriptive linguistics (2007)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2007). The Scots continuum and descriptive linguistics. The bottle imp, 2,There is a tendency to talk about 'Scots' and 'Scottish English' as though these two entities were somehow clearly delineated and neatly identifiable, but on closer examination the situation can appear less clear-cut. For this and other reasons, Scot... Read More about The Scots continuum and descriptive linguistics.
Place-names and the Scots language: The marches of lexical and onomastic research (2007)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2007). Place-names and the Scots language: The marches of lexical and onomastic research. Scottish Language, 26, 1-15
Scots word of the season : gloaming (2007)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2007). Scots word of the season : gloaming. The bottle imp, 2,
Review : Susanne Kries, Skandinavisch-schottische sprachbeziehungen im mittelalter : der altnordische lehneinfluss (2007)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2007). Review : Susanne Kries, Skandinavisch-schottische sprachbeziehungen im mittelalter : der altnordische lehneinfluss. The journal of Scottish name studies, 1, 175-179
Smeddum (2007)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2007). Smeddum. The bottle imp, 1,
Scottish place-names as a lexicographical resource (2006)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2006). Scottish place-names as a lexicographical resource. Onoma, 41, 295-309. https://doi.org/10.2143/ONO.41.0.2119620The purpose of this paper is to highlight the value of Scottish place-name evidence as a tool for the historical lexicographer of the Scots and English languages, and to identify some of the areas of lexical research where this tool could be applied... Read More about Scottish place-names as a lexicographical resource.
Previck and Lickprivick: Onomastic connections in south-west Scotland (2006)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2006). Previck and Lickprivick: Onomastic connections in south-west Scotland. Nomina, 29, 115-128
Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries (2004)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2004). Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries. In C. Kay, C. Hough, & I. Wotherspoon (Eds.), New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics (213-224). Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Scottish place-names (2003)
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (2003). Scottish place-names. In J. Corbett, J. D. McClure, & J. Stuart-Smith (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (17-30). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
'Bullion' in Scottish place-names (2000)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2000). 'Bullion' in Scottish place-names. Nomina, 23, 37-48
Review : Perceptions of Place : Twenty-First-Century Interpretations of English Place-Name Studies, English Place-Name Society Supernumerary Volume for 2012 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2013)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (in press). Review : Perceptions of Place : Twenty-First-Century Interpretations of English Place-Name Studies, English Place-Name Society Supernumerary Volume for 2012 (Nottingham: English Place-Name Society, 2013). The journal of Scottish name studies,Book review.
Capitalising on the City: Edinburgh’s linguistic identities
Journal Article
Scott, M. Capitalising on the City: Edinburgh’s linguistic identitiesThis paper examines the linguistic identities of Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital city, and the contexts in which they are currently used. The city is known by a range of different names that are linked with its historical and contemporary identities... Read More about Capitalising on the City: Edinburgh’s linguistic identities.
The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland : place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon
Thesis
Scott, M. (in press). The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland : place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon. (Thesis). University of GlasgowThe following study is an examination of the contribution of the Germanic place-names of southern Scotland to the onomasticon and lexicon of Britain generally and Scotland specifically. By building a corpus of the Germanic place-names so far identifi... Read More about The Germanic toponymicon of Southern Scotland : place-name elements and their contribution to the lexicon and onomasticon.
Convivial correctives to metrovincial prejudice : Kevin MacNeil’s The Stornoway Way and Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag
Book Chapter
Scott, M. (in press). Convivial correctives to metrovincial prejudice : Kevin MacNeil’s The Stornoway Way and Suhayl Saadi’s Psychoraag. In 21st Century Scottish Literature and Arts (198-223). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press