American dialect research

by Fought, John G. Preston, Dennis Richard

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Title Statements

Full title :American dialect research / edited by Dennis R. Preston ; with the assistance of the members of the committee, John G. Fought [and others] and the distinguished honorary members of the committee, Dwight Bolinger and Charles F. Hockett.

Summary

"Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume brings 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 interpreted 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?"--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1993.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):J. Benjamins
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:1993.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 460 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1556194897, 9781556194894, 1556194889, 9781556194887, 9027221324, 9789027221322, 9027221332, 9789027221339
oclc:ocm27643160
LC Classification:PE2841
Dewey Decimal:427/.973

The historical and cultural interpretation of dialect / W. Nelson Francis -- An approach to linguistic geography: the linguistic atlas of the Gulf States / Lee Pederson -- Area lexicon: the making of DARE / Frederic G. Cassidy -- Some applications of mathematical and statistical models in dialect geography / Dennis Girard and Donald Larmouth -- Sociolinguistic dialectology / J.K. Chambers -- Adapting dialectology: the conduct of community language studies / John Baugh -- Identifying and interpreting variables / Walt Wolfram -- The quantitative analysis of linguistic variation / Gregory R. Guy -- Variation theory and language contact: concepts, methods and data / Shana Poplack -- A perspective on African-American English / Guy Bailey -- Professional varieties: the case of language and law / William M. O'Barr -- Folk dialectology / Dennis R. Preston -- The patterning of variation in performance / Charles Briggs -- Resources for research / Michael D. Linn.

Subjects

Americanisms Amerikanisches Englisch Anglais (Langue) -- Dialectes -- États-… Anglais (Langue) -- Idiotismes -- États… Aufsatzsammlung Dialectologie Dialektologie English language -- Dialects -- United … English language / Dialects Mundart United States