Ronald K. S. Macaulay

9.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
67 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

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Ronald K. S. Macaulay is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald K. S. Macaulay has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Linguistics and Language, 31 papers in Language and Linguistics and 10 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Ronald K. S. Macaulay's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (40 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (13 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 papers). Ronald K. S. Macaulay is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (40 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (13 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 papers). Ronald K. S. Macaulay collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Chile. Ronald K. S. Macaulay's co-authors include Peter Trudgill, Walter A. Wolfram, Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford, William Labov, Nikolas Coupland, John Baugh, Allan Bell, Lesley Milroy and Judith T. Irvine and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and Applied Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Ronald K. S. Macaulay

62 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Talking voices : Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse. (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 6.) By Deborah Tannen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 240. Cloth $49.50, paper $14.95.

1991 1.4k citations Ronald K. S. Macaulay Language profile →
Style and Sociolinguistic Variation

2002 671 citations Penelope Eckert, Penelope Eckert et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
The Social Differentiation of English in Norwich

1976 498 citations Ronald K. S. Macaulay et al. Language profile →
A Sociolinguistic Description of Detroit Negro Speech

1970 473 citations Ronald K. S. Macaulay et al. Language profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald K. S. Macaulay United States	22	2.7k	2.5k	1.3k	1.0k	365	67	4.5k
Walt Wolfram United States	31	2.1k 0.8×	3.3k 1.3×	1.1k 0.8×	801 0.8×	319 0.9×	128	4.2k
Lesley Milroy United Kingdom	25	2.4k 0.9×	2.7k 1.1×	785 0.6×	628 0.6×	224 0.6×	49	3.8k
Deborah Schiffrin United States	26	3.4k 1.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.8×	628 1.7×	51	5.1k
Zdeněk Salzmann United States	28	2.0k 0.7×	855 0.3×	781 0.6×	899 0.9×	473 1.3×	85	3.7k
Carol Myers‐Scotton United States	26	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.0×	393 0.3×	740 0.7×	303 0.8×	53	3.9k
Aneta Pavlenko United States	38	3.4k 1.3×	2.2k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.8k 1.8×	589 1.6×	76	6.1k
Penelope Eckert United States	28	3.7k 1.4×	4.5k 1.8×	1.5k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	750 2.1×	42	7.0k
Michael Clyne Australia	33	2.3k 0.8×	2.5k 1.0×	313 0.2×	1.5k 1.5×	459 1.3×	153	3.9k
Robin Tolmach Lakoff United States	20	2.0k 0.7×	755 0.3×	618 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	466 1.3×	45	3.8k
Marjorie Harness Goodwin United States	29	2.3k 0.8×	663 0.3×	980 0.7×	916 0.9×	508 1.4×	51	3.3k

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Eckert, Penelope, Penelope Eckert, John R. Rickford, et al.. (2002). Style and Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 671 indexed citations breakdown →

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1999). English in transition: Corpus-based studies in linguistic variation and genre styles. Ed. by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, and Kirsi Heikkonen. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. vi, 371. - Grammaticalization at work: Studies of long-term developments in English. Ed. by Matti Rissanen, Merja Kytö, and Kirsi Heikkonen. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997. Pp. vi, 434.. Language. 75(4). 821–823. 4 indexed citations

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1999). Language and Scottish literature. By John Corbett. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 272.. Language. 75(3). 606–606. 6 indexed citations

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1997). Medieval dialectology . Ed. by Jacek Fisiak. (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, 79.) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1995. Pp. viii, 331.. Language. 73(2). 421–422.

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1993). Images of English: A cultural history of the language. By Richard W. Bailey Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991. Pp. xi, 329. Cloth $27.95.. Language. 69(4). 789–791. 5 indexed citations

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1992). Reception and response: Hearer creativity and the analysis of spoken and written texts. Ed. by Graham McGregor and R. S. White London & New York: Routledge, 1990. Pp. x, 259. $62.50.. Language. 68(1). 235–236. 23 indexed citations

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1991). Talking voices : Repetition, dialogue, and imagery in conversational discourse. (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics, 6.) By Deborah Tannen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. x, 240. Cloth $49.50, paper $14.95.. Language. 67(2). 341–344. 1358 indexed citations breakdown →

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1990). English “Standard” pronunciations : A study of attitudes. By Mats Mobärg. (Gothenburg Studies in English, 62.) Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1989. Pp. viii, 380. Paper SEK 180.00.. Language. 66(4). 878–879. 1 indexed citations

Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1988). Urbanity in an Urban Dialect: The Poetry of Tom Leonard. Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina). 23(1). 12. 2 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1988). A linguistic atlas of late mediaeval English . Edited by Angus McIntosh, Michael L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin. 4 vols. Aberdeen: University Press, 1986. Pp. x, 569; xxiv, 388; xxiv, 700; xxii, 345.. Language. 64(2). 426–427. 97 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1987). How proverbs mean: Semantic studies in English proverbs. By Neal R. Norrick (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs, 27.) Berlin: Mouton, 1985. Pp. xii, 213. DM 85.00.. Language. 63(1). 202–203. 75 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1987). Phonological variation and change: Studies in Hiberno-English. By John Harris. Cambridge: University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 379. $39.50.. Language. 63(2). 430–431. 31 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1986). Impromptu speech: A symposium . Ed. by Nils Erik Enkvist. (Publications of the Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation, 78.) Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi, 1982. Pp. 383.. Language. 62(3). 730–731. 16 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1986). Language in the British Isles . Edited by Peter Trudgill. Cambridge: University Press, 1984. Pp. xii, 587. Cloth $69.50, paper $19.95.. Language. 62(4). 914–917. 11 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1984). Advances in the social psychology of language . Ed. by Colin Fraser and Klaus R. Scherer. Cambridge: University Press; Paris: Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1982. Pp. viii, 264. Cloth $39.50, paper $12.95.. Language. 60(1). 201–202. 149 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1983). CHP : The conversational historical present in American English narrative. By Nessa Wolfson. (Topics in sociolinguistics, 1.) Dordrecht, Holland, & Cinnaminson, NJ: Foris, 1982. Pp. 126.. Language. 59(3). 694–695. 47 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1983). Language form and linguistic variation : Papers dedicated to Angus Mcintosh. Ed. by John Anderson. (Current issues in linguistic theory, 15.) Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1982. Pp. viii, 496.. Language. 59(3). 686–687. 4 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1977). The linguistic atlas of Scotland : Scots section, Vol. 1. Edited, with an introduction, by J. Y. Mather and H. H. Speitel. Cartography by G. W. Leslie. Editorial assistant, I. E. Mather. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1975. Pp. 429. $60.00.. Language. 53(1). 224–228. 12 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1974). Tense marking in Black English: a linguistic and social analysis. By Ralph W. Fasold (Urban language series, 8.) Washington, D.C.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1972. Pp. xvi, 254. $7.00.. Language. 50(4). 758–762. 154 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Ronald K. S.. (1971). Aspect in English. University Microfilms International eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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