Scottish newspapers, language and identity /
ShoutlineOffers new insights into the use of the Scottish language by the Scottish press The first decade of the new Scottish Parliament has seen the emergence of a new-found national confidence. 'Scottishness' is clearly alive and flourishing. This book offers new and detailed insights in...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1
- Introduction
- 1.1 Setting the Scene
- 1.1.1 Scotland today
- 1.1.2 Changes in the political landscape
- 1.2 Scotland's Linguistic Communities
- 1.3 Introducing the Subject Matter
- 1.3.1 Definition of key terms
- 1.4 The Newspaper Corpus: Hard Evidence
- 1.4.1 Methodological considerations
- 1.5 Overview of Chapter Content
- Further Reading
- 2
- What is Scottish Identity?
- 2.1 What Constitutes Identity?
- 2.2 Is Identity Fixed?
- 2.3 Language and Identity
- 2.3.1 Language display
- 2.4 A Distinctive Scottish Identity
- 2.4.1 Defining Scottishness
- 2.4.2 The imagined Scottish community
- 2.4.3 The role of Scottish language
- 2.4.4 Language, identity and nation states
- 2.4.5 The role of Scottish stereotypes
- 2.5 Conclusion
- Further Read
- 3
- What is Scottish Language?
- 3.1 The Historical Context
- 3.2 The Linguistic Continuum
- 3.2.1 Varieties along the continuum
- 3.2.2 Polarisation, code-switching and style-drifting
- 3.3 Written vs Spoken Varieties
- 3.4 Thin and Dense Scots
- 3.5 Open vs Closed Class Scots Lexis
- 3.6 Cognate vs Non-Cognate Lexis
- 3.7 Linguistic Status
- 3.8 Linguistic Attitudes: Ambivalence and Insecurity
- 3.9 Linguistic Awareness
- 3.10 Implications for Scottish Newspaper Texts
- Further Reading
- 4
- Newspapers and their Readers
- 4.1 Readerships
- 4.2 Importance of a Shared Community Consciousness
- 4.3 The Ideal Reader
- 4.4 Alignment with Readership
- 4.4.1 Scottish branding
- 4.4.2 A visible presence
- 4.4.3 Rootedness of journalists
- 4.4.4 Including Scottish content and viewpoint
- 4.4.5 Alignment via language
- 4.5 The Press as Gatekeepers
- 4.6 The Appropriacy Pact
- 4.7 Gatekeeping, Appropriacy and Use of Scots Language
- 4.8 Conclusion
- Further Reading
- 5
- A Limited Identity
- 5.1 The Overview
- 5.2 Where Do We Find Scots Lexis?
- 5.2.1 Methodology
- 5.2.2 Most Scots article types and journalists
- 5.3 Why is Usage of Scots Lexis Restricted to these Areas?
- 5.4 A Humorous Language?
- 5.5 How Scottish is too Scottish?
- 5.5.1 Thin and dense Scots
- 5.5.2 Open vs closed class lexis
- 5.6 How Different does it have to be from English?
- 5.6.1 Cognate/non-cognate lexis and density
- 5.6.2 Non-cognate/cognate and open vs closed class lexis
- 5.7 A Language More Fitted for Speech?
- 5.7.1 Methods for research into direct speech contexts
- 5.7.2 The individual rather than the institutional voice
- 5.8 Newspapers as a Force for Standardisation?
- 5.9 The Industry Perspective
- Further Reading
- 6
- A Multifaceted and Formulaic Identity
- 6.1 A Mediated Scottish Identity
- 6.1.1 Scottish identity mediated by class identity
- 6.1.2 Scottish identity mediated by local identity
- 6.2 Importance of Stereotypes and the Formulaic
- 6.3 Quotations and Allusions
- 6.4 Proverbs, Popular Wisdom and Sayings
- 6.5 Idiomatic Expressions
- 6.6 Other Fixed Expressions
- 6.6.1 Language variety of contexts for idioms and fixed expressions
- 6.7 Variation and Productivity
- 6.8 Common Collocational Clusters
- 6.9 Sources of the Formulaic
- 6.9.1 Importance of kinship, ancestral.
