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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,584
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Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities (Hardcover): Robert McColl Millar, William Barras, Lisa...

Lexical Variation and Attrition in the Scottish Fishing Communities (Hardcover)

Robert McColl Millar, William Barras, Lisa Bonnici

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This title deals with dialect death and the attrition of specifically local lexis in traditional dialects. Over the last half century many scholars have recorded, analysed and theorised language death. At the same time, many sociolinguists have considered how rapid and dependable transport, mass education and increasingly globalised work patterns have affected how dialects in industrial and post-industrial societies are constructed and perceived more often than not, these changes have been detrimental to the integrity of traditional dialects. The forces involved are most perceptible in loss of local lexis this has been barely touched upon in the literature, primarily because the study of lexical variation and change has proved considerably more problematical in methodological terms than its phonological and morphosyntactic equivalents. This book considers these theoretical and methodological issues in relation to a representative sample of fishing communities along Scotland's east coast, in most of which the trade is now moribund. Can the lexical variation and change found in these communities be perceived as primary evidence for dialect death? It advances our understanding of lexical variation and change. It provides an in-depth study of the nature of lexical attrition in highly discrete traditional dialects. It presents a theoretical and methodological analysis of whether language death and dialect death can be considered aspects of the same phenomenon.

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Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2014
Authors: Robert McColl Millar • William Barras • Lisa Bonnici
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 978-0-7486-9177-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Sociolinguistics
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > Dialectology
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > Slang & jargon
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LSN: 0-7486-9177-4
Barcode: 9780748691777

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