Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland
Murray Stewart Leith and Daniel P. J. Soule
Abstract
This book addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective, comparing a variety of attitudes and opinions from the political elite to the masses, and examining the nature of national identity held by members of these groups and the differences within and between them. There is consideration of non-civic aspects of national identity, as well as a measure of political party nationalism in Scotland over the past forty years that illustrates the ideological movements of each major party during this period. This work also represents the f ... More
Keywords: Scotland, national identity, nationalism, political discourse, Scottish politics, Scottish society, discourse analysis
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748637362 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748637362.001.0001 |
