Methods in dialectology : proceedings of the sixth international conference held at the University College of North Wales, 3rd-7th August 1987
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Methods in dialectology : proceedings of the sixth international conference held at the University College of North Wales, 3rd-7th August 1987
（Multilingual matters / series editor, Derrick Sharp, 48）
Multilingual Matters Ltd, c1988
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"The Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology was hosted by the Department of Linguistics in the University College of North Wales, 3-7 August, 1987 ... This volume contains a substantial selection of the papers presented"--P. v
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The Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology was hosted by the Department of Linguistics in the University College of North Wales, August 3-7, 1987. The meeting was held jointly with that of the Summer meeting of the American Dialect Society. This volume contains a substantial selection of the papers presented. The papers are wide-ranging in their coverage, with a satisfying leaning towards the practical matters of survey and field-work methodology, to the application of statistical techniques in analysis of data, and to computational methodology in the presentation of results, particularly in atlas form. The conference was designed to reflect the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit these 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 papers in this volume combine all these aspects of variation study, though the mix varies with the individual authors' concern. In all, these proceedings mirror the wide range of interests which characterise the practice of dialectology as a research discipline, and well illustrate the dilemma of the pedant who seeks an inviolate line of demarcation between 'dialectology' and 'sociolinguistics'. The defining criterion for dialectology, perhaps, is its central concern with variation in the spatial parameter, and with diffusion through space and time, in addition to refinement of the data by an enhanced awareness of the significance of factors of communal social structure.
Table of Contents
- Preface Martin J. Ball: Introduction Gary R. Butler: Discourse Variation and the Study of Communicative Competence Marvin K.L. Ching: Ma'am and Sir: Modes of Mitigation and Politeness in the Southern United States Irma Aloyce Ewing Cunningham: Some Innovative Linguistic and Procedural Solutions, Relative to Sea lsland Creole, in General
- Some Aspects of the Sea Island Creole Verbal Auxiliary in Particular Gaelan Dodds de Wolf and Erika Hasebe-Ludt: Canadian Urban Survey Methodology: A Summary of Research Techniques and Results Wynford Bellin: Linguistic Variation and Welsh Mutations in Children Karin Flikeid: Stylistic Variation in Nova Scotia Acadian French Timothy C. Frazer: Commercial Television as a Source of Language Data Ruth King and Robert Ryan: The Construction of a Rural Sociolinguistic Corpus: The Prince Edward Island Study Natalie Maynor: Written Records of Spoken Language: How Reliable Are They? Rose Mary Babitch: Diachronic Interlinguistic Contact as Reflected in the Typological Structure of Today's Acadian Fishermen's Terminology Michael D. Linn and Ronald R. Regal: Verb Analysis of the Linguistic Atlas of the North Central States: A Case Study in Preliminary Analysis of a Large Data Set James Arthurs: Terminology vs Jargon: Canadian Hockey Talk G.M. Awbery: Slander and Defamation as a Source for Historical Dialectology John Baugh: Beyond Linguistic Divergence in Black American English: Competing Norms of Linguistic Prestige and Variation Wladyslaw Cichocki: Uses of Dual Scaling in Social Dialectology: Multidimensional Analysis of Vowel Variation William A. Kretzschmar Jr.: Computers and the American Linguistic Atlas Lawrence M. Davis: The Limits of Chi Square Rick Evans: The Quantitative Paradigm and the Study of Literacy: A New Initiative in Variation Studies Dennis Girard and Donald Larmouth: Log-Linear Statistical Models: Explaining the Dynamics of Dialect Diffusion Urs Diirmiiller: Research on Mural Sprayscripts (Graffiti) Robert B. Hausmann: Linguistics and Dialectology: Controlling Strange Data Tsuneko Ikemlya: Acoustic Comparative Study of Contradictory /a:/ and / / between Maine Dialect and General American Frederic G. Cassidy: Focus of Change in American Folk Speech Virginia G. McDavid: Sex-Linked Differences Among Atlas Informants: Irregular Verbs Graham McGregor: Eavesdropping and the Analysis of Everyday Verbal Exchange Dennis R. Preston: Methods in the Study of Dialect Perceptions Edgar W. Schneider: Informants' Response Ratings in the Survey of English Dialects Gary Neal Underwood: Accent and Identity Jacob Bennett: A Method for Discovering Historical Language Variation Robert J. Gregg: The Study of Linguistic Change in the Study of Vancouver English Miklos Konrra and Maria Gosy: Approximation of the Standard: A Form of Variability in Bilingual Speech Ronald K.S. Macaulay: A Microsociolinguistic Study of the Dialect of Ayr Michael I. Miller: Ransacking Linguistic Survey Data with a Number Cruncher Michael Montgomery: The Roots of Appalachian English John M. Kirk: The Dialectology of Scots: The Use of Dramatic Texts Peter Wynn Thomas: Locating Minority Language Informants: A Network Approach to Fieldwork Wolfgang Viereck: The Computerisation and Quantification of Linguistic Data: Dialectometrical Methods Werner H. Veith: Linguistic Atlasses of German: A Survey of Computer-Aided Projects Joan H. Hall: Caught in the Web of Change Ossi Ihalainen: Creative Linguistic Databases from Machine-Readable Dialect Texts Bernhard Kelle: The Automatic Computation of Linguistic Maps with the Aid of Cluster Analysis Richard A. Spears: Managing Phrasal Data with a Microcomputer Generated Concordance Beat Glauser: Aitken's Context in Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham: A Computer-Assisted Analysis of Material from the Survey of English and Dialects (SED) Mailande Cheney Sledge: The Versimilitude of the Gullah Dialect in Francis Griswold's A Sea Island Lady Ronald R. Butters: The Historical Present as Evidence of Black/White Convergence/Divergence J.K. Chambers: Acquisition of Phonological Variants Einar Haugen: Dialects as Stepping Stones to a Language John J. Staczek: Variation in the Plural Reflexive in Spoken English: Preliminary Evidence for Merger Sandra Clark: Linguistic Variation in the Non-Stratified Context
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