Scotland in Definition: A History of Scottish Dictionaries

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This book gives an account of Scots and Gaelic dictionaries and glossaries, and also of the contribution by many Scots to the lexicography of English, from medieval times to the major electronic projects of the twenty-first century. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in language in general and Scotland's languages in particular. Readers will be fascinated by the ways in which poets and scholars through the ages have approached the task of describing their languages, and the influence of their work on popular notions regarding language, notably the contribution which lexicographers have made, and still make, to preserving and developing the Scots and Gaelic tongues through centuries of official neglect and oppression.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Contributors (p. ix)
• Acknowledgements (p. xii)
• List of Abbreviations (p. xiii)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Part I Scots Dictionaries
• 1 Lexicography of Scots before 1700 (p. 13)
• 2 Glossaries and Scotticisms: Lexicography in the Eighteenth Century (p. 35)
• 3 Jamieson and the Nineteenth Century (p. 60)
• 4 Specialised Word Lists
• I Regional Iseabail Macleod, with a section on Ulster by Michael Montgomery (p. 85)
• II Legal and Technical Iseabail Macleod (p. 110)
• 5 Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (p. 116)
• 6 Scottish National Dictionary (p. 144)
• 7 Other Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Dictionaries (p. 172)
• Part II Gaelic Lexicography
• Introduction (p. 199)
• 8 From Medieval Beginnings to 1911 (p. 201)
• 9 The Last Hundred Years (p. 236)
• Postscript (p. 260)
• Part III The Scottish Contribution to English Dictionaries
• 10 The Scottish Contribution to the Lexicography of English (p. 265)
• Notes (p. 293)
• Bibliography (p. 312)
• Index (p. 332)