Table of contents
Introduction1
Lowland Scots: an ambivalent national tongue (1984)5
The concept of Standard Scots (1979)20
The debate on Scots orthography (1985)37
Scottis, Inglis, Suddroun: language labels and language attitudes (1981)44
The Pinkerton syndrome (1985)57
What Scots owes to Gaelic (1986)68
Scots in dialogue: some uses and implications (1983)86
Linguistic characterisation in Rob Roy (1983)107
Language varieties in The Three Perils of Man (1988)118
Scots and English in Annals of the Parish and The Provost (1979)129
The language on The Entail (1981)142
Language and genre in Allan Ramsay’s 1721 Poems (1987)161
Scots and its use in recent poetry (1979)171
The synthesisers of Scots (1981)190
Bibliography200
Index of Names211
General Index215
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