Urban Scots Dialect Writing
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Beschreibung
This study explores the fundamental issues – linguistic, historical, cultural and discoursive – involved in the written representation of urban Scots. Offering a comprehensive linguistic description of Glaswegian, it examines its use and functions in 20th-century Glasgow fiction. The study argues that urban Scots is a coherent variety perfectly suitable as a literary medium alongside any other standard or non-standard variety of English. Throughout, the book draws on examples from Glasgow fiction for illustration, culminating in the analyses of representative text passages and of authenticity in their dialogue representation.
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Anette Hagan
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«...there is much to savour in this book. It is exemplary in its setting of contemporary urban fiction in a coherent historical tradition of writing in Scots; and it is intriguing in its detailed thesis that the twentieth century saw a movement away from a general Scots prose, towards something much more localised and concrete.» (John Corbett, Scottish Studies Review)
«This is a valuable study of a recently-developed sub-genre in Scottish fiction. [...] This book is an important contribution to the study of one of the most adventurous and dynamic branches of recent Scottish literature.» (J. Derrick McClure, Scottish Language)
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