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

This book examines the part played by Scottish newspapers in constructing identity during the key period of the devolution process from 1997-2011. It uses insig

This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from ‘above’ (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parlia

Northern English has been the object of much attention linguistically over the last thirty years but scholars have had a tendency to focus on the phonology of t

Language and Identities offers a broad survey of our current state of knowledge on the connections between variability in language use and the construction, neg