Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Gorlach, Manfred); 2. Nationalism and the Scots Renaissance now (by Macafee, Caroline); 3. Scots and Low German: The social history of two minority languages (by Gorlach, Manfred); 4. The rise and fall of the Morningside/Kelvinside accent (by Johnston, Paul A.); 5. Linguistic fieldwork in a Scottish New Town (by Pollner, Clausdirk); 6. Overt and covert prestige: Evaluative boundaries in a speech community (by Sandred, Karl Inge); 7. Language attitudes in the Shetland Islands (by Melchers, Gunnel); 8. The narrative skills of a Scottish coal miner (by Macaulay, Ronald K.S.); 9. On the variability of Hebridean English syntax (by Sabban, Annette); 10. Variation in Hebridian English (by Shuken, Cynthia R.); 11. The search for a Scots narrative voice (by Tulloch, Graham); 12. Our ain leid? The predicament of a Scots writer (by McClure, J. Derrick); 13. The debate on Scots orthography (by McClure, J. Derrick); 14. Texts: The Christmas story (Luke 2, 1-21) in translations by J.T. Low, J.K. Annand, W.L. Lorimer, W.W. Smith, F. Garry and J.J. Graham; 15. Texts: Translations of Wilhem Busch, Max und Morritz, Fourth Prank by J.K. Annand, Stephen Mulrine, J. Derrick McClure, Derick Herning, and Hans H. Meier; 16. Poetry in Glasgow dialect (by Mulrine, Stephen); 17. Index; 18. Author's addresses