30.3108, Books: Regional Variation in Written American English: Grieve

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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:01:00
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Regional Variation in Written American English: Grieve

 


Title: Regional Variation in Written American English 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/grammar-and-syntax/regional-variation-written-american-english?format=PB 


Author: Jack Grieve

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108712965 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 31.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108712965 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108712965 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 28.00


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in Written American English
takes a corpus-based approach to map over one hundred grammatical alternation
variables across the United States. A multivariate spatial analysis of these
maps shows that grammatical alternation variables follow a relatively small
number of common regional patterns in American English, which can be explained
based on both linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. Based on this rigorous
analysis of extensive data, Grieve identifies five primary modern American
dialect regions, demonstrating that regional variation is far more pervasive
and complex in natural language than is generally assumed. The wealth of maps
and data, and the groundbreaking implications of this volume, make it
essential reading for students and researchers in linguistics, English
language, geography, computer science, sociology and communication studies.
   

1. Introduction; 2. Corpus; 3. Grammatical analysis; 4. Spatial analysis; 5.
Multivariate analysis; 6. Sources of regional linguistic variation; 7.
Conclusion.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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