GLASGOW -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Table of contents -- SYMBOLS AND CONVENTIONS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1.0 Overview -- 1.1 Scotland as a peripheral region -- 1.2 Early history -- 1.3 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 1.4 The nineteenth century -- 1.5 The twentieth century -- 1.7 Housing and the community8 -- 1.8 Code-switching -- 1.8.1 The politeness model -- 1.8.2 Politeness and dialect -- 1.8.3 Code-switching in practice -- 1.9 Working class consciousness -- 1.10 Social mobility -- 1.11 The dominant ideology -- 1.12 . Glasgow dialect literature -- THE ENGLISH OF GLASGOW -- 2.0 Overview -- 2.1. Phonology -- 2.1.1 Consonants -- 2.1.2 Vowels -- 2.1.3 Suprasegmentals -- 2.1.4 Lexical incidence -- 2.2 Orthography -- 2.3 Lexis -- 2.3.1 Scots dialect lexis -- 2.3.2 Glasgow as a focal area -- 2.3.3 Slang -- 2.3.4 Word creation -- 2.3.5 Swearing -- 2.3.6 American influence -- 2.3.7 The gravity model -- 2.4 Grammar -- 2.4.0 Scots grammar -- 2.4.1 Sentence processes -- 2.4.2 The verb phrase -- 2.4.3 The noun phrase -- 2.4.4 Modification -- 2.4.5 Other points -- NATURAL SPEECH -- 3.0 The texts -- 3.1 Public speech, Jimmy Reid -- 3.1.1 Trade union campaign -- 3.1.2 Election campaign -- 3.2 University lecture -- 3.3 Interview, L. G. -- 3.4 Interview, W. E. -- 3.5 Conversation, Mrs. P. -- 3.6 Interview, A. G. -- 3.7 Interviews, Radio Scotland -- 3.8 Classroom discussion -- 3.9 Conversations, Radio Clyde -- 3.9.1 Tiger Tim and Billy Sloane -- 3.9.2 Tiger Tim and Doreen -- 3.9.3 Tiger Tim and Jimmy D. -- 3.9.4 Tiger Tim and Maggie -- 3.10 Comic narrative, Billy Connolly -- STEREOTYPES -- 4.0 Stereotypes -- 4.1 Will Fyffe -- 4.2 Stanley Baxter -- 4.2.1 "The Professor" -- 4.2.2 "Parliamo Glasgow" -- 4.2.3"Parliamo Glasgow" song -- 4.3 Rikki Fulton -- 4.4 Advertisements, Radio Clyde.

4.4.1 Roadrunner Motorcycle -- 4.4.2 Masterfreeze -- 4.5 The English press -- LITERATURE -- 5.0 The texts -- 5.1 Varieties related to Glasgow English -- 5.1.1 George Douglas Brown, The House with the Green Shutters -- 5.1.2 Tom Leonard, If Only Bunty was Here -- 5.1.3 "Hot Asphalt" -- 5.2 The novel and short story -- 5.2.1 J. J. Bell, Wee Macgreegor -- 5.2.2 McArthur and Long, No Mean City -- 5.2.3 Helen Pryde, 'The McFlannels' -- 5.2.4 William Mcllvanney, Laidlaw -- 5.2.5 Alan Spence, Its Colours they are Fine -- 5.2.6 James Kelman, "Nice tae be nice" -- 5.2.7 Alex Hamilton, "Stretch Marks" -- 5.2.8 Tom Leonard, "Mr. Endrews speaks" -- 5.2.9 Alex Hamilton, "Our Merry" -- 5.2.10 James Kelman, "Acid" -- 5.3 Drama -- 5.3.2 Roddy McMillan, The Bevellers -- 5.3.3 Tom McGrath and Jimmy Boyle, The Hard Man -- 5.3.4 John McGrath, The Game's a Bogey -- 5.4 Poetry and song -- 5.4.1 Children's songs and jingles -- 5.4.2 Edith Little, "The Barrows" -- 5.4.3 Adam McNaughton, "Skyscraper Wean" -- 5.4.4 Ian Hamilton Finiay, Glasgow Beasts -- 5.4.5 Stephen Mul ine, "Nostalgie" -- 5.4.6 Stephen Mulrine, "the weeber bird" -- 5.4.7 Tom Leonard, "Unrelated Incidents (2)" -- 5.4.8 Tom Leonard, "The Dropout" -- 5.4.9 Edwin Morgan, "Stobhill" -- 5.4.10 Alex Hamilton, "Poor Tom" -- 5.5 Journalism and reminiscence -- 5.5.1 'Shadow', Midnight Scenes and Social Photographs -- 5.5.2 Alex Mitchell, "Little stories from the police courts" -- 5.5.3 Albert Mackie, Talking Glasgow -- 5.5.4 Andy Cameron, "Please yersel" -- 5.5.5 Molly Weir, Shoes were for Sunday -- 5.5.6 Clifford Hartley > Dancing in the Streets -- 5.5.7 Bud Neill, "Lobey Dosser" -- 5.5.8 The Dampness Monster -- CONCLUSIONS -- GLOSSARY -- The accompanying cassette (one hour): contents and linking material -- SIDE ONE -- SIDE TWO.