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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Scots language"”.
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'Ane instructioun for bairnis to be learnit in Scottis' :a study of Scots language in the Scottish secondary classroom
The Scots language has been historically marginalised in Scotland, arguably due to its lack of ‘capital’ (see Bailey, 1987 and Bourdieu, 1986). The European Union, under the Charter for Minority Languages, recognised Scots as a minority language in 2000 and the UK Government ratified Scots as such …
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Culture and identity in Scottish children's fiction
… during this period making use of English and Scots language, as well as Gaelic, to produce an illustrious and influential literature of world renown. As Roderick Watson has observed, “the main ‘state’ left to a ‘stateless nation’ may well be its state of mind, and in that territory it is …
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When do dialects become languages? A cognitive perspective
… that offer to identify the boundaries between languages and dialects, yet these distinctions are inconsistent and are often as political as they are linguistic (Chambers & Trudgill, 1998). A different perspective is offered in this thesis, by investigating how closely related linguistic …
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"Ye ken fine wha I mean": Variation between you know and ye ken in Scottish varieties of English
… varieties of you know, specifically the use of Scots ye ken, partly as a consequence of a lack of data to study (Bauer 2004), and partly due to an assumption that there is little of interest to study in language varieties of Scotland (Murdoch, 1996). In this thesis I present a discourse analysis …