Author : J. Derrick McClure
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027276056
Scots and its Literature by J. Derrick McClure Pdf
Among the topics treated in this collection are the status of Scots as a national language; the orthography of Scots; the actual and potential degree of standardisation of Scots; the debt of the vocabulary of Scots to Gaelic; the use of Scots in fictional dialogue; and the development of Scots as a poetic medium in the modern period. All fourteen articles, written and published between 1979 and 1988, have been extensively revised and updated. J. Derrick McClure is a senior lecturer in the English Department at Aberdeen University and a well-known authority on the history of Scots.