American Dialect Research
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889-1989
Published on 7. June 1993
Book
Hardback
464 pages
978-90-272-2132-2 (ISBN)
Description
Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume bings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters offer accounts of how questions are formulated and how data are collected, stored, and intepreted in the various research traditions of dialectology and sociolinguistics, particularly as they have been carried out by researchers associated with the American Dialect Society.
More specifically, this book takes trips to the scholar's laboratory. How is this work done? What pitfalls in fieldwork, processing, and interpretation have been encountered and how have they been overcome? What techniques have been used to get at the facts and underlying explanations of language variety? What does recent work suggest about the most rewarding areas and methods for future investigation?
More specifically, this book takes trips to the scholar's laboratory. How is this work done? What pitfalls in fieldwork, processing, and interpretation have been encountered and how have they been overcome? What techniques have been used to get at the facts and underlying explanations of language variety? What does recent work suggest about the most rewarding areas and methods for future investigation?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
800 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2132-2 (9789027221322)
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Dennis R. Preston
American Dialect Research
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889-1989
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Content
1. Preface (by Preston, Dennis R.); 2. I. Area Studies; 3. The historical and cultural interpretation of dialect (by Francis, W. Nelson); 4. An approach to linguistic geography: The Linguistic Atlas of the Gulf States (by Pederson, Lee); 5. Area Lexicon: the making of DARE (by Cassidy, Frederic G.); 6. Some applications of mathematical and statistical models in dialect geography (by Girard, Dennis); 7. Sociolinguistic dialectology (by Chambers, J.K.); 8. II. Community Studies; 9. Adapting dialectology: the conduct of community language studies (by Baugh, John); 10. Identifying and interpreting variables (by Wolfram, Walt); 11. The quantitative analysis of linguistic variation (by Guy, Gregory R.); 12. III. Group Studies; 13. Variation theory and language contact: concepts, methods and data (by Poplack, Shana); 14. A perspective on African-American English (by Bailey, Guy); 15. Professional varieties: the case of language and law (by O'Barr, William M.); 16. IV. Special Topics; 17. Folk dialectology (by Preston, Dennis R.); 18. The patterning of variation in performance (by Briggs, Charles L.); 19. Appendix; 20. Resources for research (by Linn, Michael D.); 21. Index