«Ane end of an auld song?» Macro and Micro Perspectives on Written Scots in Correspondence during the Union of the Parliaments Debates

List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - Chapter 1 ‘For the Union makes us strong?’: Cause, concern and consequence in the lead up to the Union of Parliaments - Chapter 2 ‘A small intermixture of provincial peculiarities may, perhaps, have an agreeable effect’: Scots, its history and its status by 1700 - Chapter 3 ‘Using the present to explain the past?’ Historical sociolinguistics, the Three Waves and political identity as tools for diachronic corpus investigation - Chapter 4 From documents to database: The identification, digitisation and compilation of archival material into a text-searchable novel corpus - Chapter 5 ‘We can never expect a more favourable juncture for completing this Union, than at present’: Frequencies of Scots during and beyond the Union debates - Chapter 6 MCA and brms: A two-fold statistical approach to multifactor regression analysis of historical written Scots use and the role of political identity - Chapter 7 ‘I think I have quite wearied you and almost myself too by soe long a scroll’: A micro-analysis into intra-writer variation and the role of political and stylistic goals in written Scots use - Chapter 8 Eighteenth-century written Scots through macro and micro perspectives - Chapter 9 Swansong or key-change? Concluding thoughts on written Scots at the turn of the century - Bibliography - Appendices