30.4670, Books: New England English: Stanford

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Subject: 30.4670, Books: New England English: Stanford

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Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 21:20:09
From:  Oxford University Press [HumanitiesMarketing at oup.com]
Subject: New England English: Stanford

 


Title: New England English 
Subtitle: Large-Scale Acoustic Sociophonetics and Dialectology 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/new-england-english-9780190625658?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: James N. Stanford

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190625658 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 74.00


Abstract:

For nearly 400 years, New England has held an important place in the
development of American English, and "New England accents" are very well known
in the popular imagination. While other projects have studied various dialect
regions of New England, this is the first large-scale academic project since
the 1930s to focus specifically on New England English as a whole. In New
England English, James N. Stanford presents new variationist sociolinguistic
research covering all six New England states, with detailed geographic,
acoustic phonetic, and statistical analyses of recently collected data from
over 1,600 New Englanders. Stanford and his team of Dartmouth students built
this dataset over 8 years of face-to-face fieldwork and online audio
recordings and questionnaires.

Using acoustic phonetics, computational processing, and dialect maps, the book
systematically documents major traditional New England dialect features and
their current usage in terms of geography, age, gender, ethnicity, social
class, and other factors. This dataset is interpreted in terms of William
Labov's outward orientation of the language faculty, dialect levelling,
convergence and divergence, and "Hub social geometry." The result is a
wide-ranging empirical analysis and theoretical overview of this influential
English dialect region.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
                     Phonology
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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