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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:31:00
From: Katie Laker [klaker at cambridge.org]
Subject: Regional Variation in Written American English: Grieve

 


Title: Regional Variation in Written American English 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1SrfudR 


Author: Jack Grieve

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107032477 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107032477 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.99


Abstract:

The first study of its kind, Regional Variation in Written American English
takes a corpus-based approach to map over a 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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