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Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual
Edited by Jef Verschueren and Jan-Ola Östman
[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
► pp. 475–481

Dialectology

Article outline
  • 1.Definition
  • 2.An outline of history
  • 3.Aims of the investigation
    • 3.1The impact of history on the origin and evolution of languages
    • 3.2Linguistic reconstruction
    • 3.3The study of universals of language, especially implicational scales
    • 3.4Sociopragmatic and attitudinal aspects
    • 3.5Communicative aspects
  • 4.Dialect atlases
  • References
Published online: 3 October 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.m2.dia1
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