A sociolinguistic approach to the study of literary dialect in the work of John Galt and Christian Johnstone

This thesis is interested in the communicative function of literary dialect. It argues that approaches to the study of literary dialect which focus on linguistic form at the expense of literary function have helped to create a false dichotomy: literary dialect is seen either as the writer's ser...

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Main Author: Hewitt, Lindsay Ann
Published: University of Glasgow 1992
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.341880