Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland

Murray Stewart Leith is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of the West of Scotland. He has published articles on national identity, nationalism and Scottish politics, examining the political and social changes wrought by devolution. Daniel works as a freelance lecturer in Academic Writing through his company Business Grammatology. He was formerly a Lecturer in Academic Writing at the Graduate School at Glasgow Caledonian University. He has also taught at universities in Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Norway and across Scotland.

• List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Whose Nationalism is it Anyway?; 2. The Politics of Contemporary Scottish Nationalism; 3. The Changing Sense of Scotland: the Political Employment of National Identity; 4. Nationalism’s Metaphor: the Discourse and Grammar of National Personification; 5. Mass Perceptions of National Identity: Evidence from Survey Data; 6. Narratives of Identity: Locating National Identity in the Public’s Discourse; 7. The Scottish Political Elite View of National Identity; 8. (Re)describing Scottish National Identity; Bibliography; Appendix; Index.

Leith and Soule’s work, given how solitary it is on the market, will prove most important in the next few years when it is assumed the campaign for an independent Scotland will accelerate.