A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland / / Robert McColl Millar.
The first sociolinguistic history of all languages spoken in ScotlandPresents a history which includes analyses from across the country including coverage of Gaelic, Scots, Pictish, British, Norn, Immigrant languages and Scottish Standard EnglishIncludes four case studies dealing with the birth of a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (260 p.) :; 25 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- SOME PRELIMINARIES
- 1 INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THE SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
- 2 DIVERSITY: THE EARLY HISTORICAL PERIOD
- 3 INCIPIENT LINGUISTIC HOMOGENISATION: MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND
- 4 SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS: A COUNTRY IN CRISIS?
- 5 HOMOGENISATION AND SURVIVAL: THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- 6 EXPANSION WITHIN UNION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- 7 CONTRACTION AND DISSIPATION: TWENTIETH CENTURY
- 8 CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND AND ITS LANGUAGES, 1999
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX