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Standards and Variation in Urban Speech is an examination and exploration of the aims and methods of sociolinguistic investigation, based on studies of Scottish urban speech. It criticially examines the implications of the notions 'vernacular', 'standard language', 'Received Pronunciation', 'social class', and 'linguistic insecurity'. Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods using examples from comedians' jokes, dialect poetry, formal and informal interviews, and personal narratives, the work illustrates the actual norms that speakers exemplify in various ways.

Scots language --- Urban dialects --- Variation --- Spoken Scots --- Standardization --- English language --- Dialectology --- Scotland --- English language, Scots --- Lallans language --- Lowland Scots language --- Scots English language --- Scottish language (Germanic) --- Germanic languages --- Dialects, Urban --- Urbanisms (Linguistics) --- Cities and towns --- Language and languages --- Languages in contact --- Sociolinguistics --- Spoken Scots. --- Variation. --- Standardization. --- Dialects --- Scots language - Variation --- Urban dialects - Scotland --- Scots language - Spoken Scots --- Scots language - Standardization