Multilingualism as a Literary Device in W. Scott's "Waverley"

Student: Kovaleva Anastasia

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2020

Multilingualism is one of the most interesting and rarely studied literary devices to this day. The purpose of this work is to uncover the use of multilingual-ism in Walter Scott’s novel «Waverly». The study uses qualitative research methods, a descriptive method, an associative method, content analysis, and a historical method. Interactions on the idioms of Scotland are of great importance for building the world presented in the novel Waverly.

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