The Resource Focus on Scotland
Focus on Scotland
Resource Information
The item Focus on Scotland represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Focus on Scotland represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Contents
-
- Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now; SCOTS AND LOW GERMAN: THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF TWO MINORITY LANGUAGES; The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent; LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK IN A SCOTTISH NEW TOWN; Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in the speech community; 'Knappin', 'Proper English', 'Modified Scottish' Some language attitudes in the Shetland Isles; The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner; On the variability of Hebridean English syntax: the verbal group; Variation in Hebridean English
- The search for a Scots narrative voiceOur ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer; The debate on Scots orthography; THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN SCOTS; Poetry in Glasgow dialect; INDEX; Authors' addresses; The series Varieties of English Around the World
- Isbn
- 9789027286369
- Label
- Focus on Scotland
- Title
- Focus on Scotland
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Görlach, Manfred
- Dewey number
- 331.7/02/0941
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PE2102 .F6 1985
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Scots language
- Scots language
- Scots language
- Scots language
- Scots language
- Scots language
- Scotland
- Label
- Focus on Scotland
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now; SCOTS AND LOW GERMAN: THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF TWO MINORITY LANGUAGES; The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent; LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK IN A SCOTTISH NEW TOWN; Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in the speech community; 'Knappin', 'Proper English', 'Modified Scottish' Some language attitudes in the Shetland Isles; The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner; On the variability of Hebridean English syntax: the verbal group; Variation in Hebridean English
- The search for a Scots narrative voiceOur ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer; The debate on Scots orthography; THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN SCOTS; Poetry in Glasgow dialect; INDEX; Authors' addresses; The series Varieties of English Around the World
- Control code
- 714568543
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789027286369
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)714568543
- Label
- Focus on Scotland
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Introduction; Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now; SCOTS AND LOW GERMAN: THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF TWO MINORITY LANGUAGES; The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent; LINGUISTIC FIELDWORK IN A SCOTTISH NEW TOWN; Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in the speech community; 'Knappin', 'Proper English', 'Modified Scottish' Some language attitudes in the Shetland Isles; The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner; On the variability of Hebridean English syntax: the verbal group; Variation in Hebridean English
- The search for a Scots narrative voiceOur ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer; The debate on Scots orthography; THE CHRISTMAS STORY IN SCOTS; Poetry in Glasgow dialect; INDEX; Authors' addresses; The series Varieties of English Around the World
- Control code
- 714568543
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9789027286369
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)714568543
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