Spelling Scots

The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700-2000

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Spelling Scots acts not only as a wide-ranging reference book to the changing orthography of Scots, but also as an outline of the active interventions in the practices that have guided Scots spelling. The book shows how canonical writers of poetry and fiction in Scots from 1700 to the present day have blended convention and innovation in presenting Scots in literary texts, and it explores the influence of key writers such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Hogg and Stevenson. Introducing an innovative method of tracing the use of key spelling variants in a corpus of Scots writing, the book discusses the implication of this method for promoting wider literacy in Scots.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-02
Mått:156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt:422 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9780748643059

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Mer om författaren

Jennifer Bann worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow, on the AHRC-funded Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing and Correspondence of Dr William Cullen projects. John Corbett is Professor of English at the University of Macau and a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Language and Scottish Literature (1997) and he co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (2003).

Recensioner i media

This book makes an original and distinctive contribution to scholarship in a number of areas as well as containing material that will be of interest to any well-informed reader, providing an important addition to the relatively small field of the history of Scots orthography.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements; The IPA Chart; 1: Introduction; 2: The Consonants of Older Scots; 3: Older Scots Vowels; 4: The Development of Modern Scots Orthography; 5: From Orthoepy to Activism: Orthographic Interventions; 6: Cluster Analysis and Scots Orthography; 7: Applying Cluster Analysis to Scots Poetry; 8: Applying Cluster Analysis to Scots Prose; 9: Promoting Literacy in Scots; References; Appendix: Word lists used in cluster analyses