The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. _ The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics _ Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data _ Offers summaries of dialect…mehr
The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area. _ The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics _ Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data _ Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology _ Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied _ The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiryHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Charles Boberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on variation and change in North American English, particularly Canadian English and accents in film and television. He is the author of The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (2010) and a co-author of the Atlas of North American English (with William Labov and Sharon Ash, 2006). John Nerbonne worked at HP Labs, the German AI Center, and the University of Groningen, where he was head of Digital Humanities. He is currently an honorary professor in Freiburg. Nerbonne works in quantitative linguistics, using computational and statistical methods. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002, and a Humboldt prize winner in 2013. Dominic Watt is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK. His research interests are in forensic phonetics and linguistics, speech perception, sociophonetics, and language and identity studies. He is co-author of English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill, 2012), and co-editor of Language and Identities (with Carmen Llamas, 2010) and Language, Borders and Identity (2014).
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List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1 Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne, and Dominic Watt
Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) 17
Section Introduction Dominic Watt
1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23 Raymond Hickey
2 The Dialect Dictionary 39 Jacques Van Keymeulen
3 Linguistic Atlases 57 William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
4 Structural Dialectology 73 Matthew J. Gordon
5 Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory: The Blind Man and the Lame 88 Frans Hinskens
6 Sociodialectology 106 Tore Kristiansen
7 Dialectometry 123 Hans Goebl
8 Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation 143 David Britain
9 Dialect Change in Europe--Leveling and Convergence 159 Peter Auer
