Dictionary of American Regional English: Contrastive Maps, Index to Entry Labels, Questionnaire, and Fieldwork Data (VI) (Volume VI) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674066537 ISBN 13: 9780674066533

Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This companion volume to the Dictionary of American Regional English vastly enhances readers' use of the five volumes of DARE text. Those who want to investigate the regional synonyms for a rustic, or a submarine sandwich, or that strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street can search through the five volumes and compare the distributional maps. Or, with this volume, they can open to a page with all those maps displayed side by side. Not only is it an extraordinary teaching tool, it is also a browser's delight.

The user who wants to know what words characterize a given state or region is also in luck. The Index to the five volumes not only answers that question but also satisfies the reader's curiosity about words that have come into English from other languages, and words that vary with the speakers' age, sex, race, education, and community type.

And those who simply love to explore the variety and ingenuity of American expression will be seduced by the lists of answers to the DARE fieldwork questions. Dust balls under the bed? Americans have at least 176 names for them. Names for a heavy rainstorm? There are more than 200, including the fanciful frog-strangler, goose-drownder, lightwood-knot floater, and trash-mover. More than 400 questions and all of their answers are included in this treasure trove of American linguistic creativity.

About this title

About the Author:

Joan Houston Hall is Distinguished Scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the DARE staff in 1975, became Associate Editor in 1979, and was named Chief Editor in 2000.

From Booklist:

Volume 1 of DARE first appeared in 1985, and the set is finally completed with this volume of supplementary materials—a companion of sorts. Volume 6 serves as the set’s index, and it contains more than 1,600 population-adjusted geographic and social contrastive maps that enhance research into the first five volumes. Users will delight in the original DARE questionnaire and responses as well. The original fieldwork contained hundreds of questions, including “If a day is very hot, you say it’s a (blank) day”; “What do you call the upper part of a two-story house?”; and “Expressions about sweating very heavily.” A must-have for libraries owning the first five volumes of the set. --Rebecca Vnuk

About this edition

• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0674066537
• ISBN 13: 9780674066533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1080
• Editor: Hall Joan Houston