Focus on Scotland
Published on 1. January 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
241 pages
978-90-272-4863-3 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
455 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-4863-3 (9789027248633)
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Manfred Görlach
Focus on Scotland
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Content
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