Robert McColl Millar

A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, he also traces the decline and eventual 'death' of Pictish, British and Norn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 556g
• ISBN-13: 9781474448543
• ISBN-10: 1474448542
• Artikelnr.: 59413116

Autorenporträt

Robert McColl Millar is Reader in Linguistics in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen. His books include Northern and Insular Scots (2007), Authority and Identity. A Sociolinguistic History of Europe before the Modern Age (2010) and English Historical Sociolinguistics (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction: the Sociology of Language and the Scottish
historical ecology
Chapter 2. Diversity: the Early Historical Period
Chapter 3. Incipient linguistic homogenisation: Medieval Scotland
Chapter 4. Social, political and cultural metamorphosis: a country in
crisis?
Chapter 5. Homogenisation and survival: the languages of Scotland in the
eighteenth century
Chapter 6. Expansion within union: the nineteenth century
Chapter 7. Contraction and dissipation: Twentieth century
Chapter 8. Contemporary Scotland and its languages, 1999-
Endnotes; References