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Code-switching
History of the language
Dossena, Marina 2008a, When antiquarians looked at the thistle - Late Modern Views
of Scotland’s Linguistic Heritage. The
Bottle Imp 4 (Nov. 2008), 1-3. ISSN 1754-1514.
<www.thebottleimp.org.uk>.
Dossena, Marina 2008b, Imitatio literae. Scottish emigrants’ letters and long-distance interaction in
partly-schooled writing of the 19th century. In Kermas, Susan / Gotti, Maurizio (eds). Socially-conditioned
Language Change: Diachronic and Synchronic Insights. Lecce: Edizioni del Grifo,
79-96.
Dossena, Marina
2008c, “Many strange
and peculiar affairs”: Description, Narration and Evaluation in Scottish Emigrants’ Letters of the 19th Century. Scottish Language 27: 1-18.
Dossena, Marina 2009, Language Attitudes and Choice in the
Scottish Reformation.
In Gribben, Crawford / Mullan, David George (eds), Literature and the Scottish Reformation. Farnham: Ashgate, 45-62.
Unger,
Johann Wolfgang 2008. A
keek at
Scots lang syne: A brief overview of the historical development of
the Scots language. Vienna English Working Papers 17(1),
91-101.
Language
policy and language planning
Schmitt,
Holger 2009. Sprache und Identität in Schottland.
Eine
qualitative Makrostudie zur
Rolle des Tiefland-Schottischen
(Scots). Heidelberg: Winter.
Unger,
Johann Wolfgang 2009. The Discursive Construction of Scots. Unpublished PhD thesis, Dept. of Linguistics and English Language,
Lancaster University.
Unger, Johann Wolfgang
(in press 2010). Legitimating inaction: Differing identity
constructions of the Scots language. European Journal of Cultural Studies
13(1).
Literary language
Dossena, Marina 2008a. “God knows I am no Saint”: Short Notes on Two Psalms Paraphrased by
Robert Burns. In Iamartino, Giovanni / Facchinetti,
Roberta / Maggioni, M. Luisa (eds),
Studi di storia della lingua inglese offerti a Domenico Pezzini.
Monza: Polimetrica,
99-113.
Specialized discourse
Dossena, Marina 2008c, ‘The times they’re a-changing’: The Abolition of Feudal Tenure (Scotland)
Act 2000 and Linguistic Strategies of Popularization. In Bhatia, Vijay / Candlin, Christopher / Evangelisti
Allori, Paola (eds),
Language, Culture and the Law. The Formulation of Legal Concepts across Systems and Cultures. Bern: Peter Lang, 187-206.
Unger,
Johann Wolfgang 2009. Economic Discourses of Scots on Bourdieu’s “Linguistic
Market”. In Kirk, John M. / Ó Baoill, Dónall P. (eds) Language and Economic Development, Belfast: Cló Ollscoil na
Banríona.
Edited
collections of papers
Morphology
Phonology
Scots and Gaelic
Teaching materials
Anderson, Wendy / Corbett, John 2008. The
Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. A User’s Guide.
Scottish Language 27: 19-42.
Anderson, Wendy / Corbett, John 2009. Exploring English with Online Corpora.
Basingstoke: Palgrave
Macmillan.
Varieties of Scots
Hale, James 2008. The ongoing influence of Lowland
Scots, Irish and Ulster English on the developing varieties of Ulster Scots.
Scottish Language 27: 81-106.
Vocabulary, Surnames and
Place names
Breeze, Andrew 2008a. Some
Gaelic Etymologies for Scots Words: Drubly, Blad, Gilravage
and Gaberlunzie.
Scottish Language 27: 43-50.
Breeze, Andrew 2008b. Telleyr, Anguen,
Gulath, and
the Life of St Kentigern. Scottish Language 27: 71-80.
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