James Milroy

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James Milroy is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, Queen's University at Kingston

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Linguistics

#777

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#1006

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According to Wikipedia, James Robert Dunlop Milroy was a British linguist who pioneered the development of sociolinguistics. He was born in Portpatrick in Scotland, but grew up in Scotland, Wales and Surrey, and as a child he learned Welsh. He taught at several British universities before obtaining a teaching position at Queen's University Belfast where in 1965 he met his wife Lesley with whom he began carrying out sociolinguistics research on English dialects. In 1981 he became Chair of The Linguistics Science Department at the University of Sheffield, then moved to Newcastle University, and then taught for 10 years at the University of Michigan.

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James Milroy's Published Works

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Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation (1985) (717)
Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization (2001) (664)
Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model (1992) (400)
Authority in Language: Investigating Language Prescription and Standardisation (1991) (396)
Authority in Language: Investigating Standard English (1985) (380)
Linguistic variation and change (1992) (263)
Linguistic variation and change : on the historical sociolinguistics of English (1994) (214)
Real English: The Grammar of English Dialects in the British Isles (1993) (171)
Glottal stops and Tyneside glottalization: Competing patterns of variation and change in British English (1994) (166)
The Development of Standard English 1300–1800: Historical description and the ideology of the standard language (2000) (127)
Descriptive adequacy in phonology: a variationist perspective (1997) (122)
Local and Supra-Local Change in British English - The Case of Glottalisation (1994) (113)
Mechanisms of change in urban dialects: the role of class, social network and gender (1993) (83)
THE CONSEQUENCES OF STANDARDISATION IN DESCRIPTIVE LINGUISTICS (2002) (52)
MIDDLE ENGLISH DIALECTOLOGY (1992) (50)
The ideology of the standard language (2006) (44)
Motives for Language Change: On the role of the speaker in language change (2003) (40)
Regional accents of English: Belfast (1981) (39)
When is a merger not a merger?: The MEAT/MATE problem in a present-day English vernacular (1980) (35)
Internal vs external motivations for linguistic change (1997) (31)
Sociolinguistics and Ideologies in Language History (2012) (28)
Network Structure and Linguistic Change (1997) (26)
Varieties and Variation (2017) (25)
Toward a speaker-based account of language change (1999) (24)
The legitimate language : Giving a history to English (2002) (23)
Response to Sally Johnson: Misunderstanding language? (2001) (23)
Non-standard English and dialect levelling (2014) (22)
The language of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1977) (20)
Some Effects of Purist Ideologies on Historical Descriptions of English (2005) (18)
Received Pronunciation: Who "Receives" It and How Long Will It Be "Received"? (2001) (18)
PHONOLOGYCAL VARIATION AND CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH: EVIDENCE FROM NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE AND DERBY (1999) (16)
The interpretation of social constraints on variation in Belfast English (1991) (13)
When is a sound change?: On the role of external factors in language change (2003) (11)
Phonological Variation and Change in Contemporary English: Evidence from Newcastle upon Tyne and Derby = Variación y cambio fonológico en inglés contemporáneo: Evidencias desde Newcastle upon Tyne y Derby (1999) (10)
Variation in /ai/ in Northern British English, with comments on Canadian Raising (1996) (10)
Exploring the social constraints on language change (1997) (8)
The notion of “standard language” and its applicability to the study of Early Modern English pronunciation (1993) (8)
Lexical alternation and the history of english: evidence from an urban vernacular (1980) (7)
A social model for the interpretation of language change (1992) (6)
On the Discourse of Historical Linguistics: Language-Internal Explanation and Language Ideologies (2003) (5)
Neogrammarian sound change from a social dialectological perspective (1994) (5)
VARIABILITY, LANGUAGE CHANGE, AND THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH (2005) (5)
Language change and the speaker: On the discourse of Historical Linguistics (2006) (4)
On the problem of historical interpretation (1982) (4)
R. K. S. Macaulay, Language, social class and education: A Glasgow study . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Pp. 179. (1979) (4)
ON MAORI HE AND THE USES OF INDEFINITES (2016) (4)
Language in the British Isles: The history of English (2007) (3)
Exploring Linguistic Variation to Explain Language Change (1998) (3)
William Labov, Principles of linguistic change. Volume I: Internal factors (Language in Society 20). Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. Pp. xix + 641. (1995) (2)
Pearl: The verbal texture and the linguistic theme (1971) (2)
Standard English and the complaint tradition (2012) (1)
When is a sound change (2003) (1)
David Sankoff (ed.), Linguistic variation: Models and methods . New York: Academic Press, 1978. Pp. xvii + 296. (1981) (1)
On the problem of historical interpretation: Verner’s law in gothic (1982) (1)
Robert Burchfield (ed.), The Cambridge history of the English language. Vol. V: English in Britain and Overseas: origins and development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii+656. (1997) (1)
Reply to Deborah Cameron on Verbal Hygiene (1997) (0)
R. A. Hudson, Sociolinguistics (1980) (0)
Departmental components of the average hospital: From reception to chapels (1999) (0)
Landscape, gardens and the space between the buildings (1999) (0)
The human factor (1999) (0)
CONVERSATIONAL AND PHONOLOGICAL FACTORS GOVERNING THE 'FINAL RELEASE RL'LE' IN TYNESIDE ENGLISH (2019) (0)
[Giving a History to English]* (2020) (0)
Ralph Fasold, The sociolinguistics of language . (Introduction to Sociolinguistics, Volume II.) Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990. Pp. x + 342. (1991) (0)
3. Varieties and Variation (2008) (0)
Arts and decoration: From high art to humble memorabilia (1999) (0)
Interior features: From floors to furniture (1999) (0)
Ronald K. S. Macaulay, Locating dialect in discourse: The language of honest men and bonnie lassies in Ayr . Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 293. (1993) (0)
Principles of interior renovation: The role of the interior designer (1999) (0)
The legacy and appearance of hospital buildings (1999) (0)
Professional appointments: The ‘design team’ (1999) (0)
Colour and other factors (1999) (0)
Language change and the speaker (2006) (0)
Lodge, R. Anthony, A Sociolinguistic History of Parisian French . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004, xi + 290 pp. 0 521 82179 7 (2006) (0)
Social Network, Social Class And Language Change (1992) (0)
Historical linguistics and language change. By Roger Lass (1999) (0)
A sociolinguistic history of Parisian French (review) (2008) (0)

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