A sociolinguistic history of Scotland /

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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 'd...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Millar, Robert McColl, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2020]
Temas:
Sociolinguistics > Scotland.
Languages in contact > Scotland.
Language and languages > Variation.
Language planning > Scotland.
Sociolinguistique > Écosse.
Langues en contact > Écosse.
Variation (Linguistique)
Aménagement linguistique > Écosse.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Language and languages
Language and languages > Variation
Language planning
Languages in contact
Sociolinguistics
Scotland > Languages.
Écosse > Langues.
Scotland
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • a sociolinguistic history of scotland
  • Copyright
  • 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
  • Contents
  • MAPS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • SOME PRELIMINARIES
  • INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THE SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ECOLOGY
  • DIVERSITY: THE EARLY HISTORICAL PERIOD
  • INCIPIENT LINGUISTIC HOMOGENISATION: MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND
  • SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS: A COUNTRY IN CRISIS?
  • HOMOGENISATION AND SURVIVAL: THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
  • EXPANSION WITHIN UNION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • CONTRACTION AND DISSIPATION: TWENTIETH CENTURY1
  • CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND AND ITS LANGUAGES, 1999-
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Map 1 Scotland
  • Map 2 Scotland: pre-1975 counties
  • Map 3 Larger-scale polities
  • Map 4 Places mentioned in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3
  • Map 5 Places mentioned Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
  • Map 6 Places mentioned Chapter 5 and succeeding chapters

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