Dialectology
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Dialectology
(Cambridge textbooks in linguistics)
Cambridge University Press, 1980
- : hard
- : pbk
Available at 142 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 209-214
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Dialectology is the study of language variation. Traditionally, this has largely been the province of dialect geographers, who concentrated on the speech of the linguistically conservative rural population in order to map regional differences. Interest has shifted to urban speech, and sociolinguists have correlated linguistic variables with other variables such as age, social class, sex and ethnic background. Dialectology not only provides a thorough exposition of these two approaches - their histories, methodologies and significant results, drawn from studies of a wide range of languages - it also integrates them within a single conceptual framework as two aspects of the same discipline. The authors argue that dialectology can thus make an important contribution to general linguistic theory and in particular answer questions about variability in language, which has in the past too often been assigned peripheral or accidental status. Designed primarily as a comprehensive textbook for undergraduate courses in dialect studies, this book also points towards innovative and stimulating research areas.
Table of Contents
- List of maps
- List of figures
- List of tables
- The International Phonetic Alphabet
- Part I. Background: 1. Dialect and language
- 2. Dialect geography
- 3. Dialectology and linguistics
- 4. Urban dialectology
- Part II. Social Variation: 5. Social differentiation and language
- 6. Sociolinguistic structure and linguistic innovation
- Part III. Spatial Variation: 7. Boundaries
- 8. Transitions
- Part IV. Mechanisms of Variations: 9. Variability
- 10. Diffusion: sociolinguistic and lexical
- 11. Diffusion: geographical
- 12. Towards geolinguistics
- Bibliography
- Index.
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