Dr Maggie Scott

Lecturer in English Language

• Crescent House 508
• T: 0161 295 5552
• E: m.r.scott@salford.ac.uk
• Twitter: @Maggie_R_Scott
• SEEK: Research profile

2012-13 Semester 2:

Friday 11:30am - 1:30pm

Before coming to Salford in 2008, Maggie worked as a historical lexicographer for ten years, originally for the Historical Thesaurus of English at the University of Glasgow, then the Oxford English Dictionary at Oxford University Press, and latterly for Scottish Language Dictionaries (SLD) in Edinburgh. In 2005 she established a regular weekly newspaper column, ‘Scots Word of the Week’, for SLD, in the Scottish broadsheet The Herald. While based in Scotland, she also contributed to various degree programmes in English and Scots in the English Language Department at the University of Glasgow; the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland); and the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies. Her PhD at the University of Glasgow analysed place-names of Old English, Norse and Scots origin in the south of Scotland, and she has edited Nomina, the journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, since 2008.

BA: Language Through Literature

BA: Attitudes to English

BA: Dialects and Dialectology

BA: The Language of Names

The study of names (onomastics), specifically place-names in the United Kingdom.

The history and lexicography of English and Scots.

Modern perceptions of Scots and Scottish English.

MA, PhD, PgCAP

FHEA

forthcoming ‘Scottish Slang’, in: Coleman, J. (ed.) Snapshots of Slang, London: Routledge.

forthcoming ‘Attitudes to Scots: Insights from the Toponymicon’, in: Kostanski, L. and Puzey, G. (eds.), Names: People, Places, Perceptions and Power, Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

forthcoming (with Andrew Clark) ‘Directions in English Place-Name Studies: an invitation to debate, with a case study of Salford Quays’, Nomina 34.

2011 (with Joshua Pendragon) 'A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay', in: Words in Dictionaries and History, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 269-286.

2010 ‘Rethinking the Concise Scots Dictionary for the 21^st Century’, in: Considine, J (ed.), Current Projects in Historical Lexicography, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, pp. 113-130.

2008 ‘Unsung Etymologies: lexical and onomastic evidence for the influence of Scots on English’, in: Mooijaart, M. & M. van der Wal (eds.), Yesterday’s Words: Contemporary, Current and Future Lexicography, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 187-198.

2005 (with Iseabail Macleod, Marace Dareau, Pauline Cairns & Lorna Pike) online Supplement to the Scottish National Dictionary www.dsl.ac.uk Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

2004 ‘Uses of Scottish place-names as evidence in historical dictionaries’, in Kay, C. et al. (eds), New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics, Selected Papers from 12^th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, 21^th-26^th  August, Glasgow, 2002, Volume II: Lexis and Transmission, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 213-24.

2003 ‘Scottish Place-Names’, in: Corbett, J. et al. (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to Scots, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 17-30.