A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'discourse'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
discourseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5158
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of discourse in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
romise of a different kind of discourse, distinct fae the London West (2021) twitter link
ae capable o semi intelligent discourse. Fit is yir actual alternativ (2020) twitter link
’s true Jim but itÂ’s private discourse which is always mair civilise (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
accoont. Their ain wyce-like discourse on Scottish philosophical cul on page 14
wormit its wey intae everyday discourse, an maist particklarly in the on page 35

2 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ural agenda fir an autonomous discourse anent culture an politics. An on page 36

2 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
For tuim wames, aa discourse worth haen on page 55

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
tae spick aboot a 'modernist discourse' at 'constructs minority lang on page 56

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
e an for the ettles o wrutten discourse, drawin aff Latin an Frainch
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
at the ae time? Shape public discourse on the nationalism o the Brit
™s been missin frae political discourse afore noo. An that’s tae sa
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ut when they yaise 'ken' as a discourse marker they're less aware o i (2018) twitter link
Does onybody use ‘ken’ as a discourse marker? 'I went oot yesterday (2018) twitter link

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