Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of figures xiii
5. List of tables xiv
6. List of abbreviations xv
7. Transcription conventions xvi
8. 1. Introduction 1
9. 2. The Scots language in context 9
10. 3. Studying language policy from a discursive perspective 25
11. 4. ‘Top-down’ discourse on Scots at the start of the Twenty-first Century 71
12. 5. Voices ‘from below’: Strategic ambivalence 109
13. 6. The political present and future of the Scots language 141
14. 7. Manufacturing and maintaining constructions of Scots 149
15. References 157
16. Appendix A. Moderator’s scripts 167
17. Appendix B. Prompt texts and translations 169
18. Name index 173
19. Subject index 175