Focus on Scotland
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 1985
IV, 241 pages
978-90-272-8636-9 (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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Manfred Goerlach
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Content
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- Introduction
- Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now
- REFERENCES
- SCOTS AND LOW GERMAN: THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF TWO MINORITY LANGUAGES
- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 THE DIFFERENT POSITIONS OF SCOTS AND LOW GERMAN IN THEIR EARLY HISTORIES
- 3 HISTORICAL COMPARISONS OF INDIVIDUAL ASPECTS INCLUDING PRESENT CONDITIONS
- 4 SOCIOLINGUISTIC CAUSES OF THE DECLINE
- 5 LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND SCOTS
- 6 CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent
- Introduction
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK IN A SCOTTISH NEW TOWN
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in the speech community
- Introduction
- A survey of attitudes to Lowland Scots
- The questionnaire
- The sample
- Investigating linguistic attitudes
- Discussion of a lexical item
- Results
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- 'Knappin', 'Proper English', 'Modified Scottish' Some language attitudes in the Shetland Isles
- The Scandinavian heritage
- Social variation in Shetland
- Attitudes to other British accents
- Shetland" versus "English
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- On the variability of Hebridean English syntax: the verbal group
- 1. The background
- 2. Data collection
- 3. Description of the data: some features of the verb phrase
- 4. Be after doing
- 5. Variability of the data: use and non-use of the Present Perfect
- 6. Seen, come, run, been and done
- 7. Concluding remarks on the literary representation of HE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Variation in Hebridean English
- Background
- Informants
- Variation in HE
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The search for a Scots narrative voice
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer
- A Introduction
- B Is Scots English? or is Scotch no juist orra English
- C Our ain leid
- D The Scots language and the press
- E Wir ain aaldlanguage. Writin ida Shetland dialect
- F The makin o a Scots prose
- G Amang the buiks. Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- The debate on Scots orthography
- 1. Scots is a language distinct from English, and therefore merits a distinct orthography
- 2. A systematic spelling for Scots would increase its social and academic respectability
- 3. A standardised spelling would lessen the confusion resulting from the licence currently permitted to Scots writers to spell more or less as they please
- 4. Since there are several distinct dialects of Scots, there could be no 'standard' spelling for the entire country
- 5. The proposed new spellings for Scots are outlandish in appearance
- 6. There is no point in trying to introduce a reformed spelling for Scots, since nobody will use it
- REFERENCES
- THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN SCOTS
- GLOSSARIES
- Poetry in Glasgow dialect
- NOTE
- INDEX
- Authors' addresses
- The series Varieties of English Around the World
