Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents 1
3. Introduction 3
4. Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now 7
5. Scots and Low German 19
6. The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent 37
7. Linguistic fieldwork in a Scottish New Town 57
8. Overt and covert prestige 69
9. Language attitudes in the Shetland Islands 87
10. The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner 101
11. On the variability of Hebridean English syntax 125
12. Variation in Hebridian English 145
13. The search for a Scots narrative voice 159
14. Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer 181
15. The debate on Scots orthography 203
16. Texts 211
17. Texts 217
18. Poetry in Glasgow dialect 227
19. Index 237
20. Author’s addresses 241