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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:16:37 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Social Dialectology: Britain, Cheshire

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Date:  Fri, 12 Sep 2003 10:16:37 +0000
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  Social Dialectology: Britain, Cheshire

Title: Social Dialectology
Subtitle: In honour of Peter Trudgill
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 16

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl		

Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Impact_16

Editor: David  Britain, University of Essex
Editor: Jenny  Cheshire, Queen Mary, University of London

Hardback: ISBN: 9027218544, Pages: x, 344 pp., Price: EUR 85.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588114031, Pages: x, 344 pp., Price: USD 85.00

Abstract:

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years
ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative
analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline
that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection
identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently
preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on
variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere
but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume
brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most
prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some
younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new
perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic
variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation,
dialect diffusion and dialect levelling. They provide a snapshot of
some of the burning issues currently preoccupying researchers in the
field and give signposts to the future direction of the discipline.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements  ix
Introduction
  David Britain and Jenny Cheshire 1-8
Pursuing the cascade model
  William Labov 9-22
Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a
  local community
  Juan Manuel Hernández-Campoy 23-37
Systemic accomodation
  Dennis R. Preston 39-58
New dialect formation: The focusing of -kum in Amman
  Enam Al-Wer 59-67
Variation and sound change in New Zealand English
  Margaret MacLagan and Elizabeth Gordon 69-80
An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? Interpreting morphosyntactic
  resemblances in terms of direct input, parallel development, and
  linguistic contact
  Daniel Schreier 81-96
Sociolinguistics of immigration
  J.K. Chambers 97-113
Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check': A new look at
  the actuation problem
  Richard J. Watts 115-129
Parallel development and alternative restructuring: The case of
  weren't intensification
  Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes 133-153
Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change: Fitting the
  pieces of the puzzle together
  Lesley Milroy 155-171
Changing mental maps and morphology: Divergence caused by
  international border changes
Miklós Kontra 173-190
Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic
  dialectology
  David Britain 191-208
When is a sound change? On the role of external factors in language
  change
  James Milroy 209-221
Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English
  Paul Kerswill 223-243
Social dimensions of syntactic variation: The case of when clauses
  Jenny Cheshire 245-261
Language variation in Greece
  Maria Sifianou 263-273
A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code: The
  Smoi of Mandal
  Ernst Hakon Jahr 275-286
Children and linguistic normativity
  Sharon Millar 287-297
The virtue of the vernacular: On intervention in linguistic affairs
  Henry G. Widdowson and Barbara Seidlhofer 299-309
The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties
  Jan Terje Faarlund 311-325
Peter Trudgill's publications  327-338
Index  339-343

Lingfield(s):   Dialectology (Sociolinguistics)
		Sociolinguistics

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)

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