A sociolinguistic history of Scotland / Robert McColl Millar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millar, Robert McColl, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistic--Scotland.

Sociolinguistic.

Languages in contact--Scotland.

Languages in contact.

Scots language--History.

Scots language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

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 'death' of Pictish, British and Norn.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

1-4744-4856-9

OCLC:

1306540631