27.222, Books: Spelling Scots: Bann, Corbett
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:18:40
From: Anna Glazier [Anna.Glazier at eup.ed.ac.uk]
Subject: Spelling Scots: Bann, Corbett
Title: Spelling Scots
Subtitle: The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700-2000
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
http://www.euppublishing.com
Book URL: http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748643059
Author: Jennifer Bann
Author: John Corbett
Electronic: ISBN: 9780748608394 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 70
Electronic: ISBN: 9780748696451 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 70
Hardback: ISBN: 9780748643059 Pages: 192 Price: U.K. £ 70
Abstract:
‘This book is a really important and exciting contribution not only to the
history of Scots spelling − where its discussion may be regarded as
authoritative − but also to more general approaches to the history of
orthography, drawing upon major large electronic corpora in an exciting and
really novel way.’ - Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow
‘This book makes an original and distinctive contribution to scholarship in a
number of areas as well as containing material that will be of interest to any
well-informed reader, providing an important addition to the relatively small
field of the history of Scots orthography.’ - Joan Beal, University of
Sheffield
People have been writing in Scots for over 700 years, but the spelling of
Scots has never been fixed, with many words, like buik, buke, book, appearing
in a variety of forms. Drawing on the Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing, this
volume provides a comprehensive account of the spelling system of Older and
Modern Scots, illustrating how this orthographic system has developed partly
in response to historical shifts in pronunciation, and partly as a result of
social and political change.
Spelling Scots: The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700–2000 acts not only as
a wide-ranging reference book to the changing orthography of Scots, but also
as an outline of the active interventions in the practices that have guided
Scots spelling. The book shows how canonical writers of poetry and fiction in
Scots from 1700 to the present day have blended convention and innovation in
presenting Scots in literary texts, and it explores the influence of key
writers such as Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Hogg and Stevenson.
Introducing an innovative method of tracing the use of key spelling variants
in a corpus of Scots writing, the book discusses the implication of this
method for promoting wider literacy in Scots.
This book is available in north America through OUP.
Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Writing Systems
Subject Language(s): Scots (sco)
Written In: English (eng)
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