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OverviewSpelling 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Bann , John Corbett , Professor of English John Corbett (University of Macau)Publisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780748643059ISBN 10: 0748643052 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 30 October 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsThis 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 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 Author InformationJennifer Bann is postdoctoral research assistant on the AHRC-funded 'Corpus of Modern Scottish Writing' project. John Corbett is Professor of English at the University of Macau and a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Glasgow. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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