Required reading (available in a compendium, 'ENG4101 Scotland's Languages Today' at the beginning of term, with the exception of Hoffmann's book, which students must buy separately):
- Aitken, A.J. and Tom McArthur (eds) (1979) Chapter 6 in Languages of Scotland Edinburgh: Chambers (pp2-25 & 85-118)
- Anderson, J. (ed) (1982) 'Borrow, Calque and Switch: The Law of the English Frontier' in Language Form and Linguistic Variation Amsterdam: Benjamins (pp203 – 233)
- Baker, Colin (1993) Chapter 11 in Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Clevedon: Multilingual Matters (pp149-168)
- Corbett, John, J. Derrick McClure and Jane Stuart-Smith (eds) (2003) Chapters 10 and 12 in The Edinburgh Companion to Scots Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (pp210-232 & 251-272)
- Craig, Cairns (ed) (1989) Introduction and Chapters 1, 13 and 31 in The History of Scottish Literature Vol 4: Twentieth Century Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press (pp1-9, 11-3, 195-216 & 331-5)
- Cram, D. (1986) 'Patterns of English-Gaelic and Gaelic-English code-switching' in Scottish Language No. 5 (pp126-130)
- Gillies, William (ed) (1989) Chapter 3 in Gaelic and Scotland/Alba agus a’Ghàidhlig Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press (pp44-55)
- Hoffmann, Charlotte (1991) Chapters 1, 5, and 8-11 in An Introduction to Bilingualism London: Longman (pp13-32, 94-117, 157-247)
- Kirk, John M. and Dónall P. ? Baoill (eds) (2002) Language Planning and Education: Linguistic Issues in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland Belfast: Queen's University (pp56-60, 76-81 & 198-202)
- Kirk, John M. and Dónall P. ? Baoill (eds) (2003) Towards our Goals in Broadcasting, the Press, the Performing Arts and the Economy: Minority Languages in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland Belfast: Queen's University (pp165-174 & 198-210)
- Macafee, C.I. & Colm ? Baoill (1997) ‘Why Scots is not a Celtic English’ in Hildegard L.C. Tristram(ed) The Celtic Englishes Heidelberg: Winter (pp245-259)
- McClure, J. Derrick (1994) ‘English in Scotland’ in Robert Burchfield (ed) The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol V Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (pp23-46, 79-80, 85-93)
- McClure, J. Derrick (2000) Chapters 2, 7 and 14 in Language, Poetry and Nationhood East Linton: Tuckwell Press (pp14-24)
- McClure, J. Derrick (ed) (2004) Chapters 4 and 11 in Doonsin' Emerauds: New Scrieves anent Scots an Gaelic/New Studies in Scots and Gaelic Belfast: Queen's University (pp24-35 & 103-114)
- Niven, Liz & Robin Jackson (eds) (1998) Chapters 4, 5, 10 and 15 in The Scots Language: Its Place in Education Newton Stewart: Watergaw (pp45-70, 105-114 & 135-140)
- Price, Glanville (ed) (2000) Chapters 4 and 13 in Languages in Britain and Ireland Oxford: Blackwell(pp44-57 & 159-170)
- Thomas, Peter Wynn and Jayne Mathias (eds) (2000) 'Immersion programmes employed in Gaelic- medium units in Scotland' in Developing Minority Languages Cardiff: Gomer Press (pp284-291)
- Trudgill, Peter (2002) Chapter 13 in Sociolinguistic Variation and Change Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (pp137-144)
In addition students should make use of:
a) Some further reading (to be specified).
b) A selection of samples of literary texts (to be provided).
c) Relevant websites.