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 INDICE: Introduction. .Charles Boberg, John Nerbonne and Dominic Watt . .Section 1: Theory (section editor: Dominic Watt) .Section Introduction. .Dominic Watt .1. Dialectology, Philology and Historical Linguistics. .Raymond Hickey .2. The Dialect Dictionary. .Jacques Van Keymeulen .3. The Dialect Atlas. .Bill Kretzschmar .4. Structural Dialectology and the Study of Sound Change. .Matthew Gordon .5. Dialectology and Generative Linguistic Theory. .Frans Hinskens .6. Sociodialectology. .Tore Kristiansen .7. Dialectometry. .Hans Goebl .8. Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation. .David Britain .9. Dialect Change: Diffusion, Leveling and Convergence. .Peter Auer .10. Perceptual Dialectology and Subjective Evaluation of Dialects. .Dennis Preston .11. Dialect Intelligibility. .Charlotte Gooskens .12. Applied Dialectology: Dialect Coaching, Dialect Reduction and Forensics. .Dominic Watt . .Section 2: Method (section editor: John Nerbonne) .Section Introduction. .John Nerbonne .13. Dialect Sampling Methods. .Ronald Macaulay .14. The Dialect Questionnaire. .Carmen Llamas .15. Written Dialect Surveys. .Jack Chambers .16. Dialectological Field Interviews. .Guy Bailey .17. Corpus–based Approaches to Dialect Study. .Lieselotte Anderwald and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi .18. Acoustic Phonetic Dialectology. .Erik Thomas .19. Computational Dialectology. .Wilbert Heeringa and Jelena Proki .20. Dialect Maps. .Stefan Rabanus .21. Electronic Media and Dialect Study. .Jacob Eisenstein .22. Regression Analysis of Categorical Data. .John Paolillo .23. The Statistical Analysis of Aggregate Dialect Differences. .John Nerbonne and Martijn Wieling .24. Spatial Statistics for Dialectology. .Jack Grieve . .Section 3: Data (section editor: Charles Boberg) .Section Introduction. .Charles Boberg .25. Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English. .Kevin Watson .26. Dialects of North American English. .Charles Boberg .27. Dialects of German, Dutch and the Scandinavian Languages. .Sebastian Kürschner .28. Dialects of French. .Damien Hall .29. Dialects of Italy. .Tullio Telmon .30. Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese. .John Lipski .31. Dialects of the Slavic Languages. .Vladimir Zhobov and Ronelle Alexander .32. Dialects of Arabic. .Enam Al–Wer and Rudolf de Jong .33. Dialects of Indic. .Ashwini Deo .34. Dialects of Chinese. .Chaoju Tang .35. Dialects of Japanese. .Takuichiro Onishi .36. Dialects of Malay/Indonesian. .Sander Adelaar
- ISBN: 978-1-118-82755-0
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 632
- Fecha Publicación: 21/04/2017
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