J.K. Chambers
List of John Benjamins publications for which J.K. Chambers plays a role.
2019 Chapter 13. Borders and language Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, Jansen, Sandra and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 247–260 | Chapter
We expect to find dialect differences dispersed along a geographic continuum, under normal circumstances. That is, unless some contingency disrupts the geography, we expect to find only minor differences in the speech of one community and the communities on either side. The differences proliferate… read more
2015 Professor Sibata’s haha and other sociolinguistic insights Asia-Pacific Language Variation 1:2, pp. 112–128 | Article
Takesi Sibata, the pioneer of sociolinguistic dialectology, anticipated several developments that we now apply internationally in the discipline of sociolinguistics. I outline Professor Sibata’s accomplishments from a Western perspective, but I am mainly interested in promoting wider appreciation… read more
2009 Education and the enforcement of standard English Corpus Analysis and Variation in Linguistics, Kawaguchi, Yuji, Makoto Minegishi and Jacques Durand (eds.), pp. 53–66 | Article
2008 Louis Gauchat (1866-1942), Patriarch of Variationist Linguistics Historiographia Linguistica 35:1/2, pp. 213–275 | Miscellaneous
2007 Languages in Contact: The partial restructuring of vernaculars. By John Holm Diachronica 24:1, pp. 179–182 | Miscellaneous
2003 Sociolinguistics of immigration Social Dialectology: In honour of Peter Trudgill, Britain, David and Jenny Cheshire (eds.), pp. 97–113 | Article
2000 Region and language variation English World-Wide 21:2, pp. 169–199 | Article
Traditional dialectology took region as its primary and often its only independent variable. Because of numerous social changes, region is no longer the primary determinant of language variation, and contemporary (sociolinguistic) dialectology has expanded the number of independent variables. In… read more
1994 An Introduction to Dialect Topography English World-Wide 15:1, pp. 35–53 | Article
1993 Sociolinguistic dialectology American Dialect Research: Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the American Dialect Society, 1889–1989, Preston, Dennis R. (ed.), pp. 133–166 | Article
1993 “Lawless and vulgar innovations”: Victorian views of Canadian English Focus on Canada, Clarke, Sandra (ed.), pp. 1–26 | Article
1993 Comparative sociolinguistics of (aw)-fronting Focus on Canada, Clarke, Sandra (ed.), pp. 247–267 | Article
1992 Linguistic Correlates of Gender and Sex English World-Wide 13:2, pp. 173–218 | Article
1986 Comparative Sociolinguistics of a Sound Change in Canadian English English World-Wide 7:1, pp. 23–46 | Article