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
The Handbook of Dialectology
Title | The Handbook of Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Boberg |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 620 |
Release | 2018-01-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1118827597 |
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
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Title | Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Long |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2002-12-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027296057 |
The Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology, Volume 2, expands on the coverage of both regions and methodologies in the investigation of nonlinguists' perceptions of language variety. New areas studied include Canada (anglophone and francophone), Cuba, Hungary, Italy, Korea, and Mali, and most prominent among the new approaches are studies of the salience of specific linguistic features in variety identification and assessment. As in Volume I, the reader will find in these chapters everything from the statistical treatment of the ratings of dialect attributes to studies of the actual discourses of nonlinguists discussing language variety. Dialectologists, sociolinguistics, ethnographers, and applied linguists who work in areas where language variety is a concern will appreciate the findings and methods of these studies, but social scientists of every sort who want to understand the role of language in the cultural lives of ordinary people will also find much of interest here.
The Handbook of Language Contact
Title | The Handbook of Language Contact PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond Hickey |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 800 |
Release | 2020-09-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1119485061 |
The second edition of the definitive reference on contact studies and linguistic change—provides extensive new research and original case studies Language contact is a dynamic area of contemporary linguistic research that studies how language changes when speakers of different languages interact. Accessibly structured into three sections, The Handbook of Language Contact explores the role of contact studies within the field of linguistics, the value of contact studies for language change research, and the relevance of language contact for sociolinguistics. This authoritative volume presents original findings and fresh research directions from an international team of prominent experts. Thirty-seven specially-commissioned chapters cover a broad range of topics and case studies of contact from around the world. Now in its second edition, this valuable reference has been extensively updated with new chapters on topics including globalization, language acquisition, creolization, code-switching, and genetic classification. Fresh case studies examine Romance, Indo-European, African, Mayan, and many other languages in both the past and the present. Addressing the major issues in the field of language contact studies, this volume: Includes a representative sample of individual studies which re-evaluate the role of language contact in the broader context of language and society Offers 23 new chapters written by leading scholars Examines language contact in different societies, including many in Africa and Asia Provides a cross-section of case studies drawing on languages across the world The Handbook of Language Contact, Second Edition is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and students involved in language contact, language variation and change, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and language theory.
Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology
Title | Handbook of Perceptual Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | Dennis Richard Preston |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9789027221803 |
Perceptual dialectology investigates what ordinary people (as opposed to professional linguists) believe about the distribution of language varieties in their own and surrounding speech communities and how they have arrived at and implement those beliefs. It studies the beliefs of the common folk about which dialects exist and, indeed, about what attitudes they have to these varieties. Some of this leads to discussion of what they believe about language in general, or folk linguistics . Surprising divergences from professional results can be found. For the professional, it is intriguing to find out why and whether the folk can be wrong or whether the professional has missed something.Volume 1 of this handbook aims to provide for the field of perceptual dialectology: a historical survey; a regional survey, adding to the earlier preponderance of studies in Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States; a methodological survey, showing, in detail, how data have been acquired and processed; an interpretive survey, showing how these data have been related to both linguistic and other socio-cultural facts; a comprehensive bibliography.The results and methods of perceptual dialectical studies should be interesting not only to linguists, variationists, dialectologists, and students of the social psychology of language but also to sociologists, anthropologists, folklorists, and other students of culture as well as to language planners and educators.
Handbook of Dialects and Language Variation
Title | Handbook of Dialects and Language Variation PDF eBook |
Author | Michael D. Linn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Dialectology |
ISBN | 9780124510708 |
Retaining only 6 of the first edition's essays, this 2nd edition contains 25 new articles that cover regional dialects, dialect theory and social dialects. The book requires no prior technical expertise.
Dialectology
Title | Dialectology PDF eBook |
Author | J. K. Chambers |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 220 |
Release | 1998-12-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521596466 |
As a comprehensive account of all aspects of dialectology this updated edition makes an ideal introduction to the subject.