questions 89, 90, 218, 221; see also tag
questions, interrogatives
quotation marks 282
race 11, 198, 257; see also ethnicity
range 52
r-colouring 74, 81
Received Pronunciation see RP
reciprocal pronouns 100; see also pronouns
reciprocation 178, 179
reciprocity 12, 185, 198, 200, 204, 205, 207,
209
recount 176
reduplication 268, 301, 321
reference 150
referential function 18
reflexives 100, 138
regional dialects 4, 5, 7, 13, 69, 72, 91, 227,
228, 338
regional variation 8.3.2; 1, 12, 13, 25, 59, 91,
141, 195, 203, 217, 234, 241, 243, 245,
253, 255, 299, 301, 305, 306, 309, 312,
319, 326
register 7, 9, 12, 14, 18, 19, 45, 46, 153, 157,
318, 337
relative clauses 61, 90, 131, 138, 159, 264,
312
adverbial 131, 132
fused 132
pronouns, pronominal 101, 110, 131, 259,
287
relevance 146, 173, 189, 194
relexification 339
religion 10, 195, 198, 202, 206, 210, 267, 315,
318
remember 136
remoteness 114, 125
repairs 177
repetition 61, 148, 154
reported speech 248; see also indirect speech
reports 113, 165, 166
requests 181
respect 196, 202
restriction (semantic) 43
restrictive clauses 131
resultative perfect 117, 121
reverses 26
rheme 86
rhetorical functions 157
rhetorical questions 64, 159, 166
rhoticity 74, 80, 228, 229, 237, 239, 242,
255, 256, 257, 263, 270, 273, 274, 299,
310, 319, 327; see also r-colouring,
consonants (/r/)
rhyme 58, 61
rhyming slang 246, 301
rhythm 61, 86, 269, 323, 332
ritual insults 219, 262, 268
roots 163
routines, routine formulas see pragmatic
idioms
RP (Received Pronunciation) 3, 6, 7, 11, 66,
69, 72, 74, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84,
85, 89, 96, 103, 218, 227, 230, 231,
239, 241, 247, 272, 273, 297, 298,
299, 305, 309, 317, 319, 320, 324, 327,
332
rural varieties 3, 13, 197, 217, 229, 234, 235,
241, 244, 255, 259, 261, 268, 297, 338,
343
Russian 32, 251
SAE (South African English) 7, 11, 66, 84, 85,
231, 296, 305, 307, 313, 314, 316
Afrikaans 13.3.2
Black 13.3.3
Coloured 13.3.4
Eastern Cape 310
gender 223
Indian 13.3.5
White 13.3.1
St Kitts 265
St Lucia 265
St Vincent 265
salutation 204
Samoan 314
Saskatchewan 251
satisfy 179, 181, 182
sayings 60, 61
Scandinavian 32
schedule 165
schemas 7.4.2; 186, 187
schools 8, 9, 10, 234, 268
schwa 79, 82, 86
science and technology, language of 1, 4, 10,
14, 18, 40, 41, 308, 315, 318, 325, 333
Scotch-Irish see Scots; Ulster
ScotE (Scottish English), Scotland 10.2, 10.2.3;
7, 66, 69, 72, 74, 80, 81, 84, 203, 234,
249, 253, 268, 275
Scots 67, 72, 227, 234, 235, 239, 255
Ulster 240, 241
Urban 237
Scottish Gaelic 234
scripts 187
second language 314
secondary shifts 37
secret languages 11
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