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The language of Robert Burns : style, ideology, and identity / Alex Broadhead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broadhead, Alex.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796--Criticism and interpretation.
- Burns, Robert.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Bucknell University Press : Copublished with Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the language of Robert Burns. While engaging fully with up-to-date literary criticism, it makes use of theories and analytical techniques from twenty-first-century sociolinguistics in order to offer a new understanding of how Burns's language works.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One: Burns on Language: The Poems; Chapter Two: Burns on Language 2: Beyond the Poems; Chapter Three: Scots and Stereotypes; Chapter Four: Language Contact 1: Transmugrifications; Chapter Five: Language Contact 2: Code-switching; Glossary; Bibliography; About the Author; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61148-981-4
- 1-61148-704-8
- 1-61148-529-0
- OCLC:
- 864746823
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