Sociolinguistic Parallels across Europe: Focus on: Lowland Scotland and the Eastern Slavs - Softcover

Pavlenko, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659276685 ISBN 13: 9783659276682

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Comparisons of the linguistic situation established by English and Scots in Lowland Scotland with other situations constituted by pairs of closely cognate languages has become a popular approach in the field of Scots studies. Closely cognate East Slavic languages, Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian, can provide abundant material for observation in this respect. Four chapters of this book focus on the major historical and sociolinguistic parallels between Scots on the one hand and Ukrainian and Belarusian on the other, and compare the key stages and trends in their social history from the Middle Ages to the present day. Two other chapters deal with the Russian toponyms derived from Scottish personal names in the territory of the former Russian Empire. Such place-names constitute a noteworthy part of the Scottish legacy in Russia. The final chapter considers a striking example of parallel lexical development in Shetland Norn and Old Russian which may shed more light on the universally recognized etymologies.

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About the Author:

Dr. Alexander Pavlenko is Head of the Department of Foreign Languages at Taganrog Institute of Management and Economics, Russia. PhD and Habilitation in Germanic Languages at The Institute for Linguistic Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences) in St.Petersburg. Research interests: Scots studies, historical sociolinguistics and language policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3659276685
• ISBN 13: 9783659276682
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100