32.834, Books: English Dialect Dictionary Online: Markus

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Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:42:40
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: English Dialect Dictionary Online: Markus

 


Title: English Dialect Dictionary Online 
Subtitle: A New Departure in English Dialectology 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/historical-linguistics/english-dialect-dictionary-online-new-departure-english-dialectology?format=HB 


Author: Manfred Markus

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108840651 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108840651 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 85.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108840651 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.20


Abstract:

Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905) is the most
comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever written, documenting in detail
every dialect of English in the British Isles and Ireland, as well as the USA,
Canada, South Africa, and other colonial regions. Over the past ten years, it
has been brought to life digitally as a freely available database resource,
EDD Online, which provides access to this rich collection of dialect data.
This book is a comprehensive user guide to EDD Online, showing how to get the
most out of this unparalleled resource with step-by-step instructions,
illustrated with handy screenshots, and an appendix containing full colour
figures. It also considers dialectological issues from phonetics to
pragmatics, and how searches can be tailored to specific linguistic concerns,
demonstrating the interface's enormous potential to contribute to research in
a range of disciplines, from dialectology, to fields such as historical
linguistics, corpus linguistics, lexicography and sociolinguistics.
 



1. Introduction; 2. Orthography; 3. Tagging; 4. Syntax of EDD entries, and how
to describe it; 5. Some practical suggestions in hindsight; 6. Interface; 7.
Retrieval window (advanced mode); 8. Research issues, encouraged by EDD
Online; 9. Focus on quantification: towards dialectometry; 10. Final remarks
on the accessibility and impact of EDD Online.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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