Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Some Preliminaries
- 1 Introduction: The Sociology of Language and the Scottish Historical Ecology
- 2 Diversity: The Early Historical Period
- 3 Incipient Linguistic Homogenisation: Medieval Scotland
- 4 Social, Political and Cultural Metamorphosis: A Country in Crisis?
- 5 Homogenisation and Survival: The Languages of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Expansion within Union: The Nineteenth Century
- 7 Contraction and Dissipation: Twentieth Century
- 8 Contemporary Scotland and Its Languages, 1999–
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Some Preliminaries
- 1 Introduction: The Sociology of Language and the Scottish Historical Ecology
- 2 Diversity: The Early Historical Period
- 3 Incipient Linguistic Homogenisation: Medieval Scotland
- 4 Social, Political and Cultural Metamorphosis: A Country in Crisis?
- 5 Homogenisation and Survival: The Languages of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century
- 6 Expansion within Union: The Nineteenth Century
- 7 Contraction and Dissipation: Twentieth Century
- 8 Contemporary Scotland and Its Languages, 1999–
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- A Sociolinguistic History of Scotland , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020