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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.

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 œbottle 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/10.4324/9781315857787

As 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/ect015

Both 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 œbottle 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.

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/gjr077

Part 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.

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, 27-50

Since 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.

Scottish place names (2008)
Book
Scott, M. (2008). Scottish place names. Edinburgh: Black and White Publishing

Say 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.

Smeddum (2007)
Journal Article
Scott, M. (2007). Smeddum. ˜The œbottle 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.41.0.2119620

The 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.

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

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 œjournal of Scottish name studies,

Book review.

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 Glasgow

The 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.