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3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.40530
- isbn: 9782848675800
- eisbn: 9782848678955
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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éducation littérature écossaise Ecosse histoire de l’Ecosse Scotland education history of Scotland Scottish literature Literature, British Isles LIT004120 DSBSujets proches
Death--Philosophy Dying End of lifeCiter ce document
James Robertson, « Prologue: Scots language inside and outside the classroom in the twenty-first century », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.40530
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‘Mehr licht! ’ These, I am sure you will know, are reputedly the last words of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Had Goethe been Scottish, he might well have uttered the exact same phrase as he expired: ‘Mair licht! ’ Now I don’t want to dwell too long on death and dying in this talk, because that would be depressing, but, for the last 300 years or so, almost every generation seems to have thrown up yet another lament for the death of the Scots language. Edward Bannerman Ramsay, writing in 1857, sa...