Focus on Scotland
Editor
This collection comprises 15 essays ranging from the social history of and attitudes towards Scots to the representation of Scottishness in literary language and to modern sociolinguistic work. The uniqueness of the historical and present-day linguistic situation in Scotland makes the volume of particular concern not only to Scotophiles, but also to linguists interested in bidialectalism, language planning, literary dialect, urban surveys, and language and education. The authors include linguistist Scotland, England, the United States, Scandinavia and Germany.
[Varieties of English Around the World, G5] 1985. iv, 241 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionManfred Görlach | p. 3
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Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance nowCaroline Macafee | p. 7
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Scots and Low German: The social history of two minority languagesManfred Görlach | p. 19
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The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accentPaul A. Johnston | p. 37
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Linguistic fieldwork in a Scottish New TownClausdirk Pollner | p. 57
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Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in a speech communityKarl Inge Sandred | p. 69
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Language attitudes in the Shetland IslandsGunnel Melchers | p. 87
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The narrative skills of a Scottish coal minerRonald K.S. Macaulay | p. 101
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On the variability of Hebridean English syntaxAnnette Sabban | p. 125
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Variation in Hebridian EnglishCynthia R. Shuken | p. 145
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The search for a Scots narrative voiceGraham Tulloch | p. 159
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Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writerJ. Derrick McClure | p. 181
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The debate on Scots orthographyJ. Derrick McClure | p. 203
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Texts: The Christmas story (Luke 2, 1–21) in translations by J.T. Low, J.K. Annand, W.L. Lorimer, W.W. Smith, F. Garry and J.J. Graham | p. 211
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Texts: Translations of Wilhem Busch, Max und Morritz, Fourth Prank by J.K. Annand, Stephen Mulrine, J. Derrick McClure, Derick Herning, and Hans H. Meier | p. 217
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Poetry in Glasgow dialectStephen Mulrine | p. 227
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Index | p. 237
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Author’s addresses | p. 241
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General