The future of dialects
Title | The future of dialects PDF eBook |
Author | Marie-Hélène Côté |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 423 |
Release | 2016-02-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3946234186 |
Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift from dialect to standard and to intermediate compromises between the two in their forms of speech. Varieties of speech thus live on in modern communities, where they still function to mark provenance, but increasingly cultural and social provenance as opposed to pure geography. They arise at times from the need to function throughout the different groups in society, but they also may have roots in immigrants’ speech, and just as certainly from the ineluctable dynamics of groups wishing to express their identity to themselves and to the world. The future of dialects is a selection of the papers presented at Methods in Dialectology XV, held in Groningen, the Netherlands, 11-15 August 2014. While the focus is on methodology, the volume also includes specialized studies on varieties of Catalan, Breton, Croatian, (Belgian) Dutch, English (in the US, the UK and in Japan), German (including Swiss German), Italian (including Tyrolean Italian), Japanese, and Spanish as well as on heritage languages in Canada.
New Methods in Dialectology
Title | New Methods in Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | P. Th. van Reenen |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2019-11-05 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110883457 |
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Proceedings of Methods XVI
Title | Proceedings of Methods XVI PDF eBook |
Author | Yoshiyuki Asahi |
Publisher | Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783631801154 |
This book is a collection of papers presented at Methods XVI in Tachikawa, Japan. Topics in the papers are about innovation, language change, corpus studies and atlas. Authors from different parts of the world made their contributions.
Methods in Dialectology
Title | Methods in Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | Alan R. Thomas |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 718 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781853590221 |
This book reflects the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change.
The Handbook of Dialectology
Title | The Handbook of Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Boberg |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 616 |
Release | 2018-01-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1118827554 |
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 inquiry
Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology
Title | Current Approaches to Limits and Areas in Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | Xosé Álvarez |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2013-09-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1443852856 |
Defining the geographical space of linguistic variation and drawing the areal distribution of linguistic variants are classical issues in dialectology. Over recent decades, advances in geolinguistic methods, along with new trends in the study of linguistic variation, have significantly shaped new ways of approaching limits and areas in dialectology. This volume is at the crossroads of recent methodological and conceptual developments in dialectology and brings together contributions offering an unusual panorama of case studies from Basque, Romance, Germanic, Celtic, and Slavic languages. The seventeen chapters in this volume address a wide spectrum of issues exploring new approaches to the interplay of dialect areas and time and society (Part I), current quantitative methods of studying dialect limits (Part II), and linguistic geovariation focused on lexical, prosodic, syntactic or morphosyntactic topics (Part III). One of the unique features of the volume is the important collection of contributions addressing issues of dialect syntax, a recent and rapidly growing field of linguistic research.
Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age
Title | Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age PDF eBook |
Author | Rhona Alcorn |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1474430554 |
Examines how pre-modernist conceptions and social organizations of pleasure have impacted post-WWII film.