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2. Edward Braithwaite, ‘Nation Language’, in The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader, ed. Lucy Bourke, Tony Crowley and Alan Girvin (London and New York: Routledge, 2000) pp. 310–16 (p. 311).
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4. John McGrath, Naked Thoughts That Roam About, ed. by Nadine Holdsworth (London: Nick Hern, 2006), p. 210;
5. Edwin Muir, Scott and Scotland: The Predicament of the Scottish Writer (London: Routledge, 1936), pp. 17–21;