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Dialectology /
When first published in 1980, Dialectology broke new ground by integrating urban dialectology (sociolinguistics), dialect geography and spatial variation into a cohesive discipline. In this second edition, the authors take account of the renaissance of dialect research in the last twenty years. They...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©1998.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Cambridge textbooks in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Series-title
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- MAPS
- FIGURES
- TABLES
- PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION
- THE INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET (revised to 1993)
- BACKGROUND
- 1 Dialect and language
- 1.1 Mutual intelligibility
- 1.2 Language, dialect and accent
- 1.3 Geographical dialect continua
- 1.4 Social dialect continua
- 1.5 Autonomy and heteronomy
- 1.6 Discreteness and continuity
- Further information
- 2 Dialect geography
- 2.1 The impetus for dialect geography
- 2.2 An outline history of dialect geography
- 2.3 The methods of dialect geography.
- 2.3.1 The questionnaire
- 2.3.2 Linguistic maps
- 2.3.3 The selection of informants
- Further information
- 3 Dialectology and linguistics
- 3.1 Dialectology and philology
- 3.2 Structural dialectology
- 3.2.1 Inventory, distribution and incidence
- 3.2.2 Lexical correspondences
- 3.3 Generative dialectology
- 3.4 Polylectal grammars
- Further information
- 4 Urban dialectology
- 4.1 Social dialects
- 4.2 Urban dialects
- 4.3 Representativeness
- 4.4 Obtaining data
- 4.5 Classifying informants
- 4.6 The linguistic variable
- Further information
- SOCIAL VARIATION.
- 5 Social differentiation and language
- 5.1 Language and social class
- 5.2 Stylistic differentiation
- 5.3 Sex differentiation
- 5.4 Other aspects of social differentiation in language
- 5.4.1 Language and ethnic group
- 5.4.2 Social networks
- 5.4.3 Individual characteristics
- Further information
- 6 Sociolinguistic structure and linguistic innovation
- 6.1 Indicators and markers
- 6.1.1 Overt stigmatisation
- 6.1.2 Linguistic change
- 6.1.3 Phonological contrast
- 6.1.4 Stereotypes
- 6.2 The study of linguistic change
- 6.2.1 Patterns of age differentiation.
- 6.3 Mechanisms of linguistic change
- 6.3.1 Stylistic variation
- 6.3.2 The role of sex
- 6.3.3 Covert prestige
- Further information
- SPATIAL VARIATION
- 7 Boundaries
- 7.1 Isoglosses
- 7.2 Patterns of isoglosses
- 7.2.1 Criss-cross
- 7.2.2 Transitions
- 7.2.3 Relic areas
- 7.3 Bundles
- 7.4 Grading of isoglosses
- 7.5 Cultural correlates of isoglosses
- 7.6 Isoglosses and dialect variation
- Further information
- 8 Transitions
- 8.1 Gradual and abrupt transition
- 8.2 Introduction to the variables
- 8.3 The transition zone for (u)
- 8.4 Mixed and fudged lects.
- 8.5 The variable (a)
- 8.6 Transitions in general
- 8.7 Dialect variation and mapping
- 8.7.1 A relic feature in the west midlands
- 8.7.2 The interplay of social and geographical variation
- 8.7.3 Mapping social variation directly
- Further information
- MECHANISMS OF VARIATION
- 9 Variability
- 9.1 The variable as a structural unit
- 9.1.1 Variability as accidental
- 9.1.2 Variability as essential
- 9.1.3 Variable constraints
- 9.2 Implicational scales
- 9.2.1 Default singulars in Alabama
- 9.2.2 (CC) in northern England
- 9.3 Handling quantitative data.