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This book will appeal to everyone with an interest in language in general and Scotland's languages in particular. Readers will be fascinated by the ways in which poets and scholars through the ages have approached the task of describing their languages, and the influence of their work on popular notions regarding language, notably the contribution which lexicographers have made, and still make, to preserving and developing the Scots and Gaelic tongues through centuries of official neglect and oppression.

Écossais (langue ; scots) --- Écossais (langue ; scots)

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Écossais (langue ; scots) --- Dictionnaires anglais.

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Scots language --- Scottish Gaelic language --- Linguistic geography --- Ecossais(Langue) --- Géographie linguistique

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This practical introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature 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.

English literature --- English language --- Dialectology --- Littérature écossaise --- Écossais (langue germanique) --- Anglais (langue) --- Histoire et critique --- Écosse (GB)