Focus on Scotland
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Focus on Scotland
(Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 5)
J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1985
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Focus on: Scotland
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction (by Gorlach, Manfred)
- 2. Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now (by Macafee, Caroline)
- 3. Scots and Low German: The social history of two minority languages (by Gorlach, Manfred)
- 4. The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent (by Johnston, Paul A.)
- 5. Linguistic fieldwork in a Scottish New Town (by Pollner, Clausdirk)
- 6. Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in a speech community (by Sandred, Karl Inge)
- 7. Language attitudes in the Shetland Islands (by Melchers, Gunnel)
- 8. The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner (by Macaulay, Ronald K.S.)
- 9. On the variability of Hebridean English syntax (by Sabban, Annette)
- 10. Variation in Hebridian English (by Shuken, Cynthia R.)
- 11. The search for a Scots narrative voice (by Tulloch, Graham)
- 12. Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer (by McClure, J. Derrick)
- 13. The debate on Scots orthography (by McClure, J. Derrick)
- 14. 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
- 15. 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
- 16. Poetry in Glasgow dialect (by Mulrine, Stephen)
- 17. Index
- 18. Author's addresses
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