Language and Scottish Literature: Scottish Language and Literature Volume 2

This practical introduction to ways of using theories of language to explore different aspects of Scottish literature includes material on: varieties of Scots and Scottish English; linguistic approaches to literary studies; the grammar of texts; vocabulary; metaphor; poetic metre; language in use; point of view; narrative; stereotypes of the Scots; discourse; and reading older Scottish texts. Extensive examples demonstrate the application of the theories, from poems and ballads to a football report, and from short stories to extracts from film scripts and plays

Author: John Corbett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/01/1997
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780748608263

About the Author

John Corbett is Professor of English at the University of Macau and a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Language and Scottish Literature (1997) and he co-edited The Edinburgh Companion to Scots (2003).