Social Dialectology
In honour of Peter Trudgill
Editors
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 The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers.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.
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 16] 2003. x, 344 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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IntroductionDavid Britain and Jenny Cheshire | pp. 1–8
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Pursuing the cascade modelWilliam Labov | pp. 9–22
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Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local communityJuan Manuel Hernández-Campoy | pp. 23–37
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Systemic accomodationDennis R. Preston | pp. 39–58
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New dialect formation: The focusing of -kum in AmmanEnam Al-Wer | pp. 59–67
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Variation and sound change in New Zealand EnglishMargaret Maclagan and Elizabeth Gordon | pp. 69–80
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An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? Interpreting morphosyntactic resemblances in terms of direct input, parallel development, and linguistic contactDaniel Schreier | pp. 81–96
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Sociolinguistics of immigrationJ.K. Chambers | pp. 97–113
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Why fuude is not 'food' and tschëgge is not 'check': A new look at the actuation problemRichard J. Watts | pp. 115–129
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Parallel development and alternative restructuring: The case of weren't intensificationWalt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes | pp. 133–153
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Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change: Fitting the pieces of the puzzle togetherLesley Milroy | pp. 155–171
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Changing mental maps and morphology: Divergence caused by international border changesMiklós Kontra | pp. 173–190
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Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectologyDavid Britain | pp. 191–208
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When is a sound change? On the role of external factors in language changeJames Milroy | pp. 209–221
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Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British EnglishPaul Kerswill | pp. 223–243
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Social dimensions of syntactic variation: The case of when clausesJenny Cheshire | pp. 245–261
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Language variation in GreeceMaria Sifianou | pp. 263–273
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A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code: The Smoi of MandalErnst Håkon Jahr | pp. 275–286
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Children and linguistic normativitySharon Millar | pp. 287–297
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The virtue of the vernacular: On intervention in linguistic affairsHenry G. Widdowson and Barbara Seidlhofer | pp. 299–309
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The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varietiesJan Terje Faarlund | pp. 311–325
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Peter Trudgill's publications | pp. 327–338
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Index | pp. 339–343
“This volume offers an exceptionally strong collection of papers as befits the honoree. In addition to paying tribute to Trudgill, the editors sought to offer a survey of 'the main trends in the field', and with the international cast of contributors they have succeeded on this count as well.”
Matthew J. Gordon, University of Missouri-Columbia, in Language 82(3), 2006
“The papers in this volume are generally of a high quality, and provide an invaluable and eclectic contribution to the study of variation and change over the past 40 years and into the future.”
Jennifer Smith, University of York, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2005
“This Festschrift will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the development of future research in the area of dialectology.”
Don E. Walicek, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras on Linguist List 13.2057, 2004
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