TY - BOOK ID - 77905051 TI - Language and Scottish literature PY - 1997 SN - 0585060789 9780585060781 0748608265 0748674225 PB - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press DB - UniCat KW - Scots language. KW - English literature KW - Scottish literature KW - Language and culture KW - Culture and language KW - Culture KW - English language, Scots KW - Lallans language KW - Lowland Scots language KW - Scots English language KW - Scottish language (Germanic) KW - English language KW - Germanic languages KW - Scottish authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Dialects KW - Scotland KW - In literature. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77905051 AB - This practical introduction uses theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature. It includes material on varieties of Scots and Scottish English, linguistic approaches to literary studies, the grammar of texts, vocabulary, metaphor, poetic metre, language in use, point of view, narrative, stereotypes of the Scots, discourse and reading older Scottish texts. Extensive examples demonstrate the application of the theories, from poems and ballads to a football report, and from short stories to extracts from film scripts and plays. ER -