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
قائمة المحتويات
List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne, and Dominic Watt
Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) 17
Section Introduction
Dominic Watt
1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23
Raymond Hickey
2 The Dialect Dictionary 39
Jacques Van Keymeulen
3 Linguistic Atlases 57
William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.
4 Structural Dialectology 73
Matthew J. Gordon
5 Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory: The Blind Man and the Lame 88
Frans Hinskens
6 Sociodialectology 106
Tore Kristiansen
7 Dialectometry 123
Hans Goebl
8 Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation 143
David Britain
9 Dialect Change in Europe–Leveling and Convergence 159
Peter Auer
10 Perceptual Dialectology 177
Dennis R. Preston
11 Dialect Intelligibility 204
Charlotte Gooskens
12 Applied Dialectology: Dialect Coaching, Dialect Reduction, and Forensic Phonetics 219
Dominic Watt
Section 2: Methods (section editor: John Nerbonne) 233
Section Introduction
John Nerbonne
13 Dialect Sampling Methods 241
Ronald Macaulay
14 The Dialect Questionnaire 253
Carmen Llamas
15 Written Dialect Surveys 268
J.K. Chambers
16 Field Interviews in Dialectology 284
Guy Bailey
17 Corpus-Based Approaches to Dialect Study 300
Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and Lieselotte Anderwald
18 Acoustic Phonetic Dialectology 314
Erik R. Thomas
19 Computational Dialectology 330
Wilbert Heeringa and Jelena Prokic
20 Dialect Maps 348
Stefan Rabanus
21 Identifying Regional Dialects in On-Line Social Media 368
Jacob Eisenstein
22 Logistic Regression Analysis of Linguistic Data 384
John C. Paolillo
23 Statistics for Aggregate Variationist Analyses 400
John Nerbonne and Martijn Wieling
24 Spatial Statistics for Dialectology 415
Jack Grieve
Section 3: Data (section editor: Charles Boberg) 435
Section Introduction
Charles Boberg
25 Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English 439
Kevin Watson
26 Dialects of North American English 450
Charles Boberg
27 Dialects of German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian Languages 462
Sebastian Kürschner
28 Dialects of French 474
Damien Hall
29 Dialects of Italy 486
Tullio Telmon
30 Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese 498
John M. Lipski
31 Dialects of the Slavic Languages 510
Vladimir Zhobov and Ronelle Alexander
32 Dialects of Arabic 523
Enam Al-Wer and Rudolf de Jong
33 Dialects in the Indo-Aryan Landscape 535
Ashwini Deo
34 Dialects of Chinese 547
Chaoju Tang
35 Dialects of Japanese 559
Takuichiro Onishi
36 Dialects of Malay/Indonesian 571
Alexander Adelaar
Index 582
عن المؤلف
Charles Boberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Mc Gill University in Montreal, Canada. His research focuses on variation and change in North American English, particularly Canadian English and accents in film and television. He is the author of The English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis (2010) and a co-author of the Atlas of North American English (with William Labov and Sharon Ash, 2006).
John Nerbonne worked at HP Labs, the German AI Center, and the University of Groningen, where he was head of Digital Humanities. He is currently an honorary professor in Freiburg. Nerbonne works in quantitative linguistics, using computational and statistical methods. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 2002, and a Humboldt prize winner in 2013.
Dominic Watt is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Speech Science at the University of York, UK. His research interests are in forensic phonetics and linguistics, speech perception, sociophonetics, and language and identity studies. He is co-author of English Accents and Dialects (with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill, 2012), and co-editor of Language and Identities (with Carmen Llamas, 2010) and Language, Borders and Identity (2014).
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