Volume 1 Theories and Methods: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2010

Volume 1 Theories and Methods

Edited by: Peter Auer and Jürgen Erich Schmidt

Part of the multi-volume work Language and Space

Volume 30/1 in the series Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110220278

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About this book

The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the “deepest” dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the new mobility of speakers in recently industrialized and postindustrial societies and the efflorescence of communication technologies cannot be ignored. This has given rise to a reconsideration of the relationship between geographical place and cultural space, and the fundamental link between language and a spatially bounded territory.

Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation seeks to take full account of these developments in a comprehensive, theoretically rich way. The introductory volume examines the concept of space and linguistic approaches to it, the structure and dynamics of language spaces, and relevant research methods. A second volume offers the first thorough exploration of the interplay between linguistic investigation and cartography, and subsequent volumes uniformly document the state of research into the spatial dimension of particular language groupings.

Key features:

comprehensive coverage of the field in terms of theory and methods
the unique volume stands alone, since it neither is a handbook of dialectology or of areal linguistics, nor a handbook on language variation alone
gathers together a great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field

Author / Editor information

Peter Auer, University of Freiburg, Germany; Jürgen Erich Schmidt, University of Marburg, Germany.

Reviews

"In sum, this volume offers a comprehensive assessment of language and space research. It casts a wide net in tracing the historical development of
scholarship in this area and in portraying the current state of the art. As a result, a picture emerges of an exciting body of work that explores an expanding range of questions relevant to linguists of various stripes."
Matthew J. Gordon in: Linguist List 22.2882

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
I. Introduction: Language and space
1. Language and geographical space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Language and social spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. Language and political spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4. Language and transnational spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
II. Linguistic approaches to space
5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
7. Language and Space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language space ideology, 1920–1960 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
9. Language and space: The variationist approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
10. Who’s there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
11. Language, space and the folk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
III. Structure and dynamics of a language space
13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
18. Urban and rural language Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
19. Discontinuous language spaces (Sprachinseln) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
20. Linguistic stability in a language space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
21. Old minorities within a language space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces
22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	391
23. Areal language typology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440
25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	468
27. Non-convergence despite language contact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
V. Data collection and corpus-building
28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	494
29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	512
30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	528
VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results
31. Measuring dialect differences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	550
32. Linguistic atlases - traditional and modern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
33. Dialect dictionaries - traditional and modern Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	592
34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
VII. Exemplary studies
35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	632
36. A study on areal diffusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	649
37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	668
38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	686
39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	706
40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	724
41. The study of language and space in media discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	740
VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems
42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	760
43. Areal variation in prosody Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	786
44. Areal variation in morphology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	804
45. Lexical variation in space Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	821
46. Areal variation in syntax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	837
47. Areal variation and discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	865
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	879

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Academic Libraries, Research Centers, (Students and Scholars in Language Variation Studies, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Geography, Dialectology)
Pages
- Front matter: 16
- Main content: 889
Keywords: Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Language Change

eBook

Published: December 22, 2009
ISBN: 9783110220278

Hardcover

Published: January 14, 2010
ISBN: 9783110180022