Language and Space : An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation. Volume 1, Theories and Methods / ed. by Peter Auer, Jürgen Erich Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Auer, Peter, Editor.

Schmidt, Jürgen Erich, Editor.

De Gruyter.

Series:

Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK] , 1861-5090 ; 30/1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectology.

German language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.

German language.

German language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Linguistic geography.

Linguistics.

Dialektologie.

Soziolinguistik.

Sprachwandel.

Local Subjects:

Dialektologie.

Soziolinguistik.

Sprachwandel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (889 pages)

Contained In:

De Gruyter Book Archive.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

I. Introduction: Language and space

1. Language and geographical space

2. Language and social spaces

3. Language and political spaces

4. Language and transnational spaces

II. Linguistic approaches to space

5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition

6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography

7. Language and Space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language space ideology, 1920-1960

8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches

9. Language and space: The variationist approach

10. Who's there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics

11. Language, space and the folk

12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach

III. Structure and dynamics of a language space

13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space

14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space

15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space

16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space

17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation

18. Urban and rural language

19. Discontinuous language spaces (Sprachinseln)

20. Linguistic stability in a language space

21. Old minorities within a language space

IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces

22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale

23. Areal language typology

24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles

25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties

26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities

27. Non-convergence despite language contact

V. Data collection and corpus-building

28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards

29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview

30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques

VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results

31. Measuring dialect differences

32. Linguistic atlases - traditional and modern

33. Dialect dictionaries - traditional and modern

34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies

VII. Exemplary studies

35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice

36. A study on areal diffusion

37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects

38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces

39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo

40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces

41. The study of language and space in media discourse

VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems

42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology

43. Areal variation in prosody

44. Areal variation in morphology

45. Lexical variation in space

46. Areal variation in syntax

47. Areal variation and discourse

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)

ISBN:

9783110220278

OCLC:

979599961

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