Extremely common eloquence : : constructing Scottish identity through narrative / / Ronald K. S. Macaulay.
Extremely Common Eloquence presents a detailed analysis of the narrative and rhetorical skills employed by working-class Scots in talking about important aspects of their lives. The wide range of devices employed by the speakers and the high quality of the examples provide convincing evidence to rej...
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| Superior document: | Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature ; Volume 3 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Editions Rodopi,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Scottish cultural review of language and literature ;
Volume 3. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of speakers
- Chapter One: The Study of Language
- Chapter Two: The Problems of Transcription
- Chapter Three: A Small Soap Opera
- Chapter Four: The Uses of Dialogue
- Chapter Five: The Significance of Stories
- Chapter Six: Third Person Narratives
- Chapter Seven: A Stylistic Anomaly
- Chapter Eight: Family Stories
- Chapter Nine: The Auld Scotch Tongue
- Chapter Ten: The Culture of Jock Tamson's Bairns
- Chapter Eleven: The Poetry of Talk
- Chapter Twelve: Discover the People
- Appendix A: Len M.'s Trip to Russia and Two Versions of a Story
- Appendix B: Bill Dalgleish's Story
- Appendix C: Bella K.'s Father
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.