Student who completed an independent study with a linguistics faculty member in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 will give a presentation. Budding Linguist awards will be given to selected recipients. 

Presentation Information:

Title: Civility and Politeness in the Breadalbane Collection of 16th-Century Scottish Letters.



Presenter: Max Ederington, student at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School - Math, Science and Technology Center.



Short tentative summary: The University of Edinburgh's Breadalbane Collection is a corpus of letters taken from the 16th-century, written during the time of the Campbell-MacGregor feud and the Marian civil war. Using these letters, this project investigated politeness across rank and gender during this time of strife in Scotland.