THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCOTS LANGUAGE

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from above (through texts such as educational pol icies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from below (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis to examine what discursive strategies are used in di fferent texts, and also to investigate salient features of context. This allows a broader discussion of the role of this language in Scotland, a...[Read more]