Language and Scottish Literature

✍ Scribed by John Corbett

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 294
• Series: Scottish Language and Literature
• Edition: Vol. II
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This practical introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature includes material on:varieties of Scots and Scottish English; linguistic approaches to literary studies; the grammar of texts; vocabulary; metaphor; poetic metre; language in use; point of view; narrative; stereotypes of the Scots; discourse; and reading older Scottish texts. Extensive examples demonstrate the application of the theories, from poems and ballads to a football report, and from short stories to extracts from film scripts and plays.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
ISBN......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Scottish Language and Literature......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Varieties of Scots......Page 13
2 Language and Literary Studies......Page 34
3 Analysing Grammar......Page 48
4 Questions of Vocabulary......Page 67
5 Metaphor......Page 88
6 Language in Use......Page 105
7 Sounds and Structures......Page 124
8 Narrative (1): Address, Deixis and Speech......Page 140
9 Narrative (2): Points of View, Cohesion and Coherence......Page 163
10 Beyond the Text: Scottish Stereotypes......Page 189
11 Beyond the Text (2): Processing Discourse......Page 209
12 The Language of Older Scottish Literature......Page 226
Common Stanzas in Scots Poetry......Page 251
Glossary of Linguistic Terms......Page 255
Glossary of Scots Terms......Page 268
Bibliography......Page 274
Index......Page 282