{"product_id":"the-handbook-of-dialectology-isbn-9781118827550","title":"The Handbook of Dialectology","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Dialectology\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers 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\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES BOBERG, JOHN NERBONNE, AND DOMINIC WATT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 1: Theory (section editor: \u003ci\u003eDominic Watt\u003c\/i\u003e) 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDOMINIC WATT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Dialectology, Philology, and Historical Linguistics 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRAYMOND HICKEY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Dialect Dictionary 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJACQUES VAN KEYMEULEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Linguistic Atlases 57\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Structural Dialectology 73\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMATTHEW J. GORDON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Dialectology and Formal Linguistic Theory: The Blind Man and the Lame 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFRANS HINSKENS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Sociodialectology 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTORE KRISTIANSEN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Dialectometry 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHANS GOEBL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Dialect Contact and New Dialect Formation 143\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAVID BRITAIN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Dialect Change in Europe—Leveling and Convergence 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePETER AUER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Perceptual Dialectology 177\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDENNIS R. PRESTON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Dialect Intelligibility 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLOTTE GOOSKENS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Applied Dialectology: Dialect Coaching, Dialect Reduction, and Forensic Phonetics 219\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDOMINIC WATT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 2: Methods (section editor: \u003ci\u003eJohn Nerbonne\u003c\/i\u003e) 233\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOHN NERBONNE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Dialect Sampling Methods 241\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRONALD MACAULAY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Dialect Questionnaire 253\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCARMEN LLAMAS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Written Dialect Surveys 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ.K. CHAMBERS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Field Interviews in Dialectology 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGUY BAILEY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Corpus‐Based Approaches to Dialect Study 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBENEDIKT SZMRECSANYI AND LIESELOTTE ANDERWALD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Acoustic Phonetic Dialectology 314\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eERIK R. THOMAS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Computational Dialectology 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWILBERT HEERINGA AND JELENA PROKIĆ\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Dialect Maps 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSTEFAN RABANUS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Identifying Regional Dialects in On‐Line Social Media 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJACOB EISENSTEIN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Logistic Regression Analysis of Linguistic Data 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOHN C. PAOLILLO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Statistics for Aggregate Variationist Analyses 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJOHN NERBONNE AND MARTIJN WIELING\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Spatial Statistics for Dialectology 415\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJACK GRIEVE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection 3: Data (section editor: \u003ci\u003eCharles Boberg\u003c\/i\u003e) 435\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSection Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES BOBERG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Dialects of British and Southern Hemisphere English 439\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKEVIN WATSON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Dialects of North American English 450\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHARLES BOBERG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Dialects of German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian Languages 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSEBASTIAN KURSCHNER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Dialects of French 474\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDAMIEN HALL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Dialects of Italy 486\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTULLIO TELMON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Dialects of Spanish and Portuguese 498\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn M. Lipski\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Dialects of the Slavic Languages 510\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVLADIMIR ZHOBOV AND RONELLE ALEXANDER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Dialects of Arabic 523\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eENAM AL‐WER AND RUDOLF DE JONG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Dialects in the Indo‐Aryan Landscape 535\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eASHWINI DEO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 Dialects of Chinese 547\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCHAOJU TANG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Dialects of Japanese 559\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTAKUICHIRO ONISHI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Dialects of Malay\/Indonesian 571\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eALEXANDER ADELAAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 582\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dialectology, the study of how and why language varies from place to place, comes brilliantly to life with this comprehensive, state-of-the-art \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e. Grounded in history yet filled with cutting-edge methodology, research findings and personal insights from top researchers in the field, this book gives scholars and students the ideal reference manual for studying and understanding dialects in the 21st century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Sali Tagliamonte\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Toronto, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It's all here - an enormously helpful and brilliantly well-planned volume, by the world's very top dialectology researcher. The \u003ci\u003eHandbook \u003c\/i\u003ehas everything that needs to be known about regional variations in language, including the history of its study, its manifestations,  its causes, and its consequences.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProfessor Peter Trudgill\u003c\/b\u003e, University of East Anglia, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This timely volume comprises thirty six chapters written by leading exponents in the discipline, comprehensively covering in three excellent sections issues in  theory, method and data. It is a fine resource for anyone working on language variation, language history, or for those who require access to bodies of language data: indispensable for researchers and students alike.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Lesley Milroy\u003c\/b\u003e, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan, USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Charles Boberg\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at McGill 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 \u003ci\u003eThe English Language in Canada: Status, History and Comparative Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e (2010) and a co-author of the \u003ci\u003eAtlas of North American English\u003c\/i\u003e (with William Labov and Sharon Ash, 2006).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Nerbonne\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Dominic Watt\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEnglish Accents and Dialects\u003c\/i\u003e (with Arthur Hughes and Peter Trudgill, 2012), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eLanguage and Identities\u003c\/i\u003e (with Carmen Llamas, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eLanguage, Borders and Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(2014).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dialectology, the study of how and why language varies from place to place, comes brilliantly to life with this comprehensive, state of the art handbook. Grounded in history yet filled with cutting-edge methodology, research findings and personal insights from top researchers in the field, this book gives scholars and students the ideal reference manual for studying and understanding dialects in the 21st century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Professor Sali Tagliamonte,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto, USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"It's all here – an enormously helpful and brilliantly well-planned volume, by the world's very top dialectology researchers. The \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e has everything that needs to be known about regional variation in language, including the history of its study, its manifestations, its causes, and its consequences.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Professor Peter Trudgill,\u003c\/b\u003e University of East Anglia, UK\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOver the last 150 years the field of dialectology has seen a great broadening and diversification of subject matter, including the range of languages and dialects studied, methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives used, and its links with allied disciplines. \u003ci\u003eThe Handbook of Dialectology\u003c\/i\u003e meets this challenge by providing an authoritative, up-to-date account of the study of dialect from around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrganized into three sections—theory, method, and data—the editors, along with an international team of leading scholars, explore the broad field of dialectology and a wide range of related subtopics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eHandbook\u003c\/i\u003e considers dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including a variety of language families that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapters address the most important issues, review the essential research, and offer a critical discussion of the past, present, and future developments of the subfield. In addition, the book begins with an introductory essay on the nature of dialect variation, and the history and current status of the discipline of dialectology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990247784677,"sku":"NP9781118827550","price":218.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118827550.jpg?v=1761787055","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-handbook-of-dialectology-isbn-9781118827550","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}