American dialect research
Shows how questions are formulated and how data is collected, stored and interpreted in the various traditions of research of the American Dialect Society (ADS). Designed as a "how-to" text for scholars, it looks at current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation.
xv, 460 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
9789027221339, 9789027221322, 9781556194887, 9781556194894, 9027221332, 9027221324, 1556194889, 1556194897
1050491927
Part 1 Area studies: 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. Part 2 Community studies: 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. Part 3 Group studies: 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. Part 4 Special topics: folk dialectology, Dennis R. Preston; the patterning of variation in performance, Charles Briggs. Appendix: Resources for research, Michael D. Linn.