Dialectology and the linguistic Atlas Project / Allison Burkette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burkette, Allison Paige, author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in sociolinguistics 2754-5539

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialectology--Research--United States.

Dialectology.

English language--United States--History.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (65 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

People from different places use different words for things, even everyday things such as carbonated beverages (e.g. soda, coke, pop) or bread roll-based sandwiches (e.g. hoagie, grinder, sub). Regional variation in vocabulary is one of the foci of dialectology, a subfield of linguistics that examines the geographic distribution of specific words, along with distributions of different pronunciations and grammatical constructions. This Element will provide readers with a basic understanding of traditional dialectological study and will demonstrate through examples (audio, text, maps) how Linguistic Atlas Project research has changed and expanded over time. Readers will be introduced to the key concepts of dialectology with a focus on the North American Linguistic Atlas Project (LAP) and its materials. This Element will also discuss today's LAP with reference to third-wave sociolinguistics, outlining the ways in which the LAP has changed over time to meet the needs and goals of contemporary sociolinguistic study.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dialectology and the Linguistic Atlas Project

Contents

1 Studying Language Variation and Change

2 Brief History of Dialect Geography

2.1 Key Concepts from Traditional Dialectology

3 American Dialect Geography

3.1 The LAP Regional Surveys

3.2 Kurath's Dialect Boundaries

3.3 Update on LAP Status

4 The Atlas Interview

4.1 Informant Bios and Character Sketches

4.2 Interview Targets

4.3 Anatomy of a Worksheet

4.4 Page 7a

5 LAP Language Data

5.1 LAP Dataset: LANE Example

5.2 LAP Dataset: LAMSAS Example

5.3 LAP Dataset: LAGS Example

5.4 LAP Dataset: LAMR Example

6 Third-Wave Thinking

6.1 Three Waves in Sociolinguistics

6.2 First and Second Waves in Dialectology

6.3 Third-Wave Dialectology

6.4 Updating the LAP Interview

6.5 Key Insights

6.6 Key Readings

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-37859-7

1-009-37857-0

1-009-37856-2

OCLC:

1574117343