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Diskursanalytische Arbeiten gehören in jüngerer Zeit zu den wichtigsten Impulsen in der gesellschafts- und wissensorientierten Linguistik. Zwei Ausprägungen der Diskurslinguistik werden häufig gegenübergestellt: kritische und deskriptive Diskursanalyse. Geht es den deskriptiven Ansätzen um eine Rekonstruktion historischer Bedeutungen und die Freilegung gesellschaftsrelevanter Themen in öffentlichen Debatten, so verfolgen kritische Arbeiten vor allem das Ziel einer examine von Sprache und Macht.

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Spelling Scots acts not just as a wide-ranging reference publication to the altering orthography of Scots, but additionally as an summary of the energetic interventions within the practices that experience guided Scots spelling. The ebook exhibits how canonical writers of poetry and fiction in Scots from 1700 to the current day have mixed conference and innovation in providing Scots in literary texts, and it explores the effect of key writers akin to Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Hogg and Stevenson.

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