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1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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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. |
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Intro -- a sociolinguistic history of scotland -- Copyright -- 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 |
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8 CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND AND ITS LANGUAGES, 1999- -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Contents -- MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SOME PRELIMINARIES -- INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THE SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ECOLOGY -- DIVERSITY: THE EARLY HISTORICAL PERIOD -- INCIPIENT LINGUISTIC HOMOGENISATION: MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND -- SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS: A COUNTRY IN CRISIS? -- HOMOGENISATION AND SURVIVAL: THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- EXPANSION WITHIN UNION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- CONTRACTION AND DISSIPATION: TWENTIETH CENTURY1 |
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CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND AND ITS LANGUAGES, 1999- -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Map 1 Scotland -- Map 2 Scotland: pre-1975 counties -- Map 3 Larger-scale polities -- Map 4 Places mentioned in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 -- Map 5 Places mentioned Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 -- Map 6 Places mentioned Chapter 5 and succeeding chapters |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sociolinguistics -- Scotland.
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Sociolinguistics. |
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Scotland. |
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Scotland -- Languages.
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Language and languages. |
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Languages in contact -- Scotland.
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Language and languages -- Variation.
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Languages in contact. |
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Language planning -- Scotland.
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Language and languages -- Variation. |
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Language planning. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Millar, Robert McColl. A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2020 9781474448543 |
| ISBN |
9781474448567 (electronic book) |
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1474448569 (electronic book) |
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9781474448574 (electronic book) |
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1474448577 (electronic book) |
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9781474448543 |
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1474448542 |
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