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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities
Robert McColl Millar
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Hardcover. Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. This book presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of whether language death and dialect death can be considered aspects of the same phenomenon. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; CFB; CFFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 372.
This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and post-industrial societies are constructed and perceived more often than not, these changes have been detrimental to the integrity of traditional dialects. The forces involved are most perceptible in loss of local lexis this has been barely touched upon in the literature, primarily because ... Read more
This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and post-industrial societies are constructed and perceived more often than not, these changes have been detrimental to the integrity of traditional dialects. The forces involved are most perceptible in loss of local lexis this has been barely touched upon in the literature, primarily because ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748691777
SKU
V9780748691777
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About Robert McColl Millar
Robert McColl Millar is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. William Barras is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. Lisa Bonnici is Research Assistant in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen.
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