A Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland by Sylvester Douglas (Lord Glenberrie)

Douglas, Sylvester

ISBN 10: 074860300X / ISBN 13: 9780748603008

Published by Edinburgh University Press, 1991

About this Item

1st edition, 1991. Original pictorial dustjacket & black cloth gilt VG. Pages very clean & tight. No inscriptions. Portrait frontispiece. Edited by Charles Jones. 278 pages.

Seller Inventory # ABE-5077948241

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Treatise on the Provincial Dialect of Scotland by Sylvester Douglas (Lord Glenberrie)
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074860300X
• ISBN 13: 9780748603008
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book is a record of the speech habits (and their social consequences) of the Scottish and English upper classes in the 18th century. Written as a pronouncing dictionary and phonological description of contemporary prestigious London pronunciation and polite Scottish English, it was never published at the time. This is the first edition of the "Treatise" and is a guide to the state of English phonology and its social and regional variations in the late 18th century. In the introduction, Charles Jones provides a full biography of Sylvester Douglas and attempts to place his work in the context of 18th-century phonological study. Full and detailed examples of the principal characteristics of the period's phonology are given and there are comprehensive footnotes on the "Treatise" itself throughout the text.