ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a sociohistorical analysis of the development of Ferguslie Park from its origins in the 1920s until the beginnings of the Partnership initiative in the late 1980s. It focuses particularly on charting the predominant speech genres which have featured in that history, and the types of identity which they have tended to mediate for those who have lived in the area. Ferguslie Park was built by Paisley Burgh Council as a municipally owned and managed housing scheme in a series of stages between the 1920s and the 1960s. By the later 1960s the scheme comprised some 3,500 units of housing which were home to a population of around 13,500 people. Ferguslie Park has been centrally implicated in a speech genre of social exclusion and stigmatization.
