Author: Sir John SinclairPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Observations on the Scottish Dialect
Author: Sir John SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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An etymological dictionary of the Scottish language
Author: John JamiesonPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Notes and Queries
Author: Jamieson's Dictionary of Scots
Author: Susan RenniePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019963940X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The first account of the making of John Jamieson's pioneering Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language first published between 1808 and 1825. Susan Rennie describes Jamieson's work and methods interweaving her account with biography and linguistic, social, and book history to present a rounded picture of the man, his work, and his times.
The Language of Robert Burns
Author: Alex BroadheadPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611485290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This monograph offers a radical reconceptualization of the relationship between the poetics and practice of Robert Burns and reevaluates the nature of his role in the history of Scots. By drawing on ideas from twenty-first-century sociolinguistic theory, it seeks to transform the debate surrounding Burns’s language. Through a series of readings that explore the way in which Burns used and commented on the styles associated with different places, groups and genres, it demonstrates how languages, places, and the identities associated with both are, in Burns’s writing, subject to continual reinvention. In this respect, the study breaks with existing accounts of the subject, insofar as it presents Scots, English and the other languages used by Burns not as fixed, empirically-observable entities, but as ideas that were revised and remade through the poet’s work. Focusing on Burns’s poems, songs, letters, prefaces, and glossaries, the book pays special attention to the complex ways in which the author engaged with such issues as phonology, grammar, and the naming of languages. The Burns who emerges from this book is not the marginal figure of traditional accounts—an under-educated poet alienated from the philological mainstream—but rather a well-informed thinker who, more than any other contemporary writer, embodies the creative linguistic spirit of the eighteenth century.
Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Scottish Notes and Queries
Author: John BullochPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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