Scots and its literature
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Scots and its literature
(Varieties of English around the world, General series ; v. 14)
John Benjamins, c1995
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-210) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a poetic medium in the modern period. All fourteen articles, written and published between 1979 and 1988, have been extensively revised and updated.
J. Derrick McClure is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Aberdeen University and a well-known authority on the history of Scots.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lowland Scots: an ambivalent national tongue (1984)
- 3. The concept of Standard Scots (1979)
- 4. The debate on Scots orthography (1985)
- 5. Scottis, Inglis, Suddroun: language labels and language attitudes (1981)
- 6. The Pinkerton syndrome (1985)
- 7. What Scots owes to Gaelic (1986)
- 8. Scots in dialogue: some uses and implications (1983)
- 9. Linguistic characterisation in Rob Roy (1983)
- 10. Language varieties in The Three Perils of Man (1988)
- 11. Scots and English in Annals of the Parish and The Provost (1979)
- 12. The language on The Entail (1981)
- 13. Language and genre in Allan Ramsay's 1721 Poems (1987)
- 14. Scots and its use in recent poetry (1979)
- 15. The synthesisers of Scots (1981)
- 16. Bibliography
- 17. Index of Names
- 18. General Index
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