Methods in Dialectology:-: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference held at the University College of North Wales, 3rd-7th August 1987.

Alan R. Thomas [editor]

ISBN 10: 1853590223 / ISBN 13: 9781853590221

Published by Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon, PA, USA, 1988

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Multilingual Matters 48. Red hard boards Pp 701. Ex university library copy with the usual signifiers to prelims [but no pocket] but there are only two outings on the loan label and the book appears little - if at all - . It is a square, tight, sound copy with crisp, bright contents Laid-in is the original comprehensive Errata booklet. Heavy item, book will incur an extra shipping charge if leaving the UK. Images/further information available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Methods in Dialectology:-: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference held at the University College of North Wales, 3rd-7th August 1987.
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd, Clevedon, PA, USA
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853590223
• ISBN 13: 9781853590221
• Binding: Cloth Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good to Near Fine

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Synopsis

The Sixth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology was hosted by the Department of Linguistics in the University College of North Wales, August 3-7, 1987. The meeting was held jointly with that of the Summer meeting of the American Dialect Society. This volume contains a substantial selection of the papers presented. The papers are wide-ranging in their coverage, with a satisfying leaning towards the practical matters of survey and field-work methodology, to the application of statistical techniques in analysis of data, and to computational methodology in the presentation of results, particularly in atlas form. The conference was designed to reflect the current concerns of dialectologists, as they exploit these methodological tools in the twin contexts of insights which derive from sociology via sociolinguistics, and their awareness of the interplay between synchronic variation and linguistic change. The papers in this volume combine all these aspects of variation study, though the mix varies with the individual authors' concern. In all, these proceedings mirror the wide range of interests which characterise the practice of dialectology as a research discipline, and well illustrate the dilemma of the pedant who seeks an inviolate line of demarcation between 'dialectology' and 'sociolinguistics'. The defining criterion for dialectology, perhaps, is its central concern with variation in the spatial parameter, and with diffusion through space and time, in addition to refinement of the data by an enhanced awareness of the significance of factors of communal social structure.