Language, ideologies, and the 'Scottish voice'

James Costa (1)

1 ICAR - Interactions, Corpus, Apprentissages, Représentations

In this Occasional Paper, I would like to emphasise one way in which language ideological issues permeate literary discourse in Scotland. Focusing on issues related to Scots, I will analyse two (in my view complementary) introductions to anthologies of texts in Scots published over the past twenty years, and show how they participate in a wider ideological debate on language and society in Scotland.

Keywords: language ideologies; Scottish literature; language revitalisation

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Linguistics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Literature

James Costa. Language, ideologies, and the 'Scottish voice'. International Journal of Scottish Literature, 2010, 7, pp.1-7. ⟨ensl-00632457⟩