Dr William Lamb
- Dr William Lamb
- Lecturer in Scottish Ethnology, Director for MSc(T) Celtic and Scottish Studies
- Office hours: Monday 9am - 12pm (Please book appointment via email)
- Celtic and Scottish Studies
- 27 George Square
- Edinburgh
- EH8 9LD
- Work: +44 (0)131 650 3624
- Email:
- wlamb@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
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- Dr William Lamb
Biography
Dr William Lamb is a Lecturer in Celtic and Scottish Studies and the Programme Director for the MSc in Celtic and Scottish Studies. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh in 2012, he was a lecturer in Gaelic Language and Music at Lews Castle College (University of the Highlands and Islands) and an Honorary Research Fellow of Glasgow University. He is currently on the steering committee of the inter-university project Faclair na Gàidhlig (Historical Dictionary of the Gaelic Language) and is a recent subject specialist reviewer for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA).
Qualifications
BA, MSc, PhD, TQFE
Research Interests
- Orality and literacy in Gaelic traditional narrative
- Register variation and dialectology
- Stylistics and change in Scottish traditional music and song
- The cognitive basis of the intergenerational transmission of oral tradition
- Linguistic and ethnological typology
Administrative Duties
- Programme Director for the MSc(T) in in Celtic and Scottish Studies
- Celtic & Scottish Studies Library Committee Representative, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
- Course Organiser for Scottish Studies 1B; Traditional Narrative; Traditional Song: Gaelic; Scottish Emigrant Traditions; Gaelic Dialectology
External Appointments
- Faclair na Gàidhlig, Steering Committee (2012 - present)
- SQA, subject specialist reviewer (2011, 2012)
Teaching
Undergraduate Courses
Course Coordination:
- Scottish Emigrant Traditions (Honours)
- Scottish Studies 1B: Creating Scotland (1st year)
- Traditional Narrative: Comparisons and History (Honours)
- Traditional Song: Gaelic (Honours)
- Gaelic Dialectology (Honours)
Additional lecturing on:
- Gaelic 1B (1st year)
- Scotland and Orality (2nd year)
- Scottish Studies 1A: Conceptualising Scotland (1st year)
- Traditional Music: The Modern Day and Recent Past
Postgraduate courses (taught)
Publications
Books
Lamb, W. (Ed.). (2012). Keith Norman MacDonald's Puirt-à-Beul. Broadford: Taigh na Teud.
Lamb, W. (2008) Scottish Gaelic Speech and Writing: Register Variation in an Endangered Language, Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona.
Lamb, W. (2003) Scottish Gaelic (2nd edition), Muenchen: Lincom Europa.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Lamb, W. (2013 a: Forthcoming).‘Reeling in the Strathspey: The Origins of Scotland's National Music’, Scottish Studies
Lamb, W. (Forthcoming: 2013 b). ‘Recitation or Re-creation? A Reconsideration: Verbal Consistency in the Gaelic Storytelling of Duncan MacDonald’.
Lamb, W. (2012). ‘The Storyteller, the Scribe and a Missing Man: Hidden Influences from Print in the Gaelic Tales of Duncan and Neil MacDonald’, Oral Tradition, 27/1: 109-160.
Lamb, W. (2006). ‘The noun phrase in Gaelic speech and writing’, in W. McLeod, J. E. Fraser & A. Gunderloch (Eds.), Cànan & Cultur/ Language & Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 3, 153-178. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press.
Lamb, W. (2005). ‘Towards a corpus of spoken Scottish Gaelic’, in J. M. Kirk & D. P. Ó. Baoill (Eds.), Legislation, Literature and Sociolinguistics: Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland, 126-137. Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na Banríona.
Lamb, W. (1999). ‘A diachronic account of Gaelic News-speak: The development and expansion of a register’, Scottish Gaelic Studies, XIX: 141-171
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This article was published on Mar 19, 2013