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Northern and Insular Scots

Robert McColl Millar, Patrick Honeybone, Joan Beal, April McMahon
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      The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages. How well have these varieties maintained their traditional natures at the start of the 21st century? Northern and Insular Scots provides: * An approachable description of the phonological, structural and lexical natures of these varieties * A history of the varieties in relation to the areas in which they are spoken * Examples of the language of native speakers * An annotated bibliography which points the reader towards more specialised works.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert McColl Millar, Patrick Honeybone, Joan Beal, April McMahon EAN: 9780748623174 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 240 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Edinburgh University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-01-29 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Celtic Languages, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Scotland, English, Linguistics

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      Robert McColl Millar is Senior Lecturer in linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. He has published widely on topics relating to the language use of northern Scotland, as well as on language change and the sociology of language.
      The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages. How well have these varieties maintained their traditional natures at the start of the 21st century? Northern and Insular Scots provides: * An approachable description of the phonological, structural and lexical natures of these varieties * A history of the varieties in relation to the areas in which they are spoken * Examples of the language of native speakers * An annotated bibliography which points the reader towards more specialised works.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert McColl Millar, Patrick Honeybone, Joan Beal, April McMahon EAN: 9780748623174 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 240 g HEIGHT: 216 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Edinburgh University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-01-29 CITY: GENRE: FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Celtic Languages, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology WIDTH: 138 cm SPINE:

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      Scotland, English, Linguistics

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      Robert McColl Millar is Senior Lecturer in linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. He has published widely on topics relating to the language use of northern Scotland, as well as on language change and the sociology of language.

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