Spelling Scots
The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700-2000
John Corbett author Jennifer Bann author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Published:2nd Oct '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Spelling Scots 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 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. -- Professor Joan Beal, University of Sheffield
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. -- Professor Jeremy Smith, University of Glasgow
ISBN: 9780748643059
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192 pages