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Urban Scots Dialect Writing

Urban Scots Dialect Writing

Hagan, Anette

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English as a Second LanguageLinguisticsPublic Speaking & Speech Writing

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ISBN10: 3906768392
ISBN13: 9783906768397
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Apr 4 2002
Pages: 345
Language: English
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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