A sociolinguistic history of Scotland. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert McColl Millar.
• Authors: Millar, Robert McColl, 1966-
• Contents: Intro -- a sociolinguistic history of scotland -- Copyright -- Contents -- MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SOME PRELIMINARIES -- 1 INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THE SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ECOLOGY -- 2 DIVERSITY: THE EARLY HISTORICAL PERIOD -- 3 INCIPIENT LINGUISTIC HOMOGENISATION: MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND -- 4 SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS: A COUNTRY IN CRISIS? -- 5 HOMOGENISATION AND SURVIVAL: THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 6 EXPANSION WITHIN UNION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 7 CONTRACTION AND DISSIPATION: TWENTIETH CENTURY 8 CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND AND ITS LANGUAGES, 1999- -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- Contents -- MAPS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SOME PRELIMINARIES -- INTRODUCTION: THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND THE SCOTTISH HISTORICAL ECOLOGY -- DIVERSITY: THE EARLY HISTORICAL PERIOD -- INCIPIENT LINGUISTIC HOMOGENISATION: MEDIEVAL SCOTLAND -- SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND CULTURAL METAMORPHOSIS: A COUNTRY IN CRISIS? -- HOMOGENISATION AND SURVIVAL: THE LANGUAGES OF SCOTLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- EXPANSION WITHIN UNION: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- CONTRACTION AND DISSIPATION: TWENTIETH CENTURY1 CONTEMPORARY SCOTLAND AND ITS LANGUAGES, 1999- -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Map 1 Scotland -- Map 2 Scotland: pre-1975 counties -- Map 3 Larger-scale polities -- Map 4 Places mentioned in Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 -- Map 5 Places mentioned Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 -- Map 6 Places mentioned Chapter 5 and succeeding chapters
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4409411; Sociolinguistics -- Scotland; Languages in contact -- Scotland; Language and languages -- Variation; Language planning -- Scotland; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; Language and languages; Language and languages -- Variation; Language planning; Languages in contact; Sociolinguistics; Scotland -- Languages; Scotland; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474448567; 1474448569; 9781474448574; 1474448577; 9781474448543; 1474448542
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 13, 2020).
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