Social Dialectology

In honour of Peter Trudgill

Editors

David Britain

| University of Essex

Jenny Cheshire

| Queen Mary, University of London

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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 The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers.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

https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.16

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 Håkon 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

“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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Subjects

Linguistics

Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

BIC Subject: CFB – Sociolinguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2003050287 | Marc record