Perthshire Society of Natural Science
Environment, Nature and Cultural Heritage.
Last Friday evening, Professor Jennifer Smith from the University of Glasgow presented the findings from the Speak for Yersel project – a series of quizzes investigating how use of Scots words (both overt and covert) and grammatical phrasing are distributed around Scotland, both geographically and broadly by class, and explored its interaction with Gaelic in the north-west Highlands.
A video of the evening is available on our YouTube channel:
The moment we hear someone talk, their accent and dialect influence the mental image we form of that person’s national, social, economic and educational background.
Dr Sadie Ryan is a sociolinguist at the University of Glasgow with a keen interest in the relationships between accents and identity. She spoke particularly about the relationships between Scots and English.
See the video of the lecture here: https://youtu.be/1HN-kiJ_-G8
