This volume offers an exceptionally strong collection of papers as befits the honoree. In addition to paying tribute to Trudgill, the editors sought to offer a survey of 'the main trends in the field', and with the international cast of contributors they have succeeded on this count as well.

- Matthew J. Gordon, University of Missouri-Columbia, in Language 82(3), 2006,

The papers in this volume are generally of a high quality, and provide an invaluable and eclectic contribution to the study of variation and change over the past 40 years and into the future.

- Jennifer Smith, University of York, in Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2005,

This Festschrift will undoubtedly make a significant contribution to the development of future research in the area of dialectology.

- Don E. Walicek, University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras on Linguist List 13.2057, 2004,

The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers. Together the authors provide new perspectives on both the traditional areas of sociolinguistic variation and change and the newer fields of dialect formation, dialect diffusion and dialect levelling. They provide a snapshot of some of the burning issues currently preoccupying researchers in the field and give signposts to the future direction of the discipline.
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This comprehensive guide to social dialectology covers such topics as variation and sound in New Zealand English; systemic accomodation; sociolinguistics of immigration; language variation in Greece; and children and linguistic normativity.
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1. Acknowledgements; 2. Introduction (by Britain, David); 3. Pursuing the cascade model (by Labov, William); 4. Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community (by Hernandez-Campoy, Juan Manuel); 5. Systemic accomodation (by Preston, Dennis R.); 6. New dialect formation: The focusing of -kum in Amman (by Al-Wer, Enam); 7. Variation and sound change in New Zealand English (by Maclagan, Margaret); 8. An East Anglian in the South Atlantic?: Interpreting morphosyntactic resemblances in terms of direct input, parallel development, and linguistic contact (by Schreier, Daniel); 9. Sociolinguistics of immigration (by Chambers, J.K.); 10. Why fuude is not 'food' and tschegge is not 'check': A new look at the actuation problem (by Watts, Richard J.); 11. Parallel development and alternative restructuring: The case of weren't intensification (by Wolfram, Walt); 12. Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change: Fitting the pieces of the puzzle together (by Milroy, Lesley); 13. Changing mental maps and morphology: Divergence caused by international border changes (by Kontra, Miklos); 14. Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology (by Britain, David); 15. When is a sound change?: On the role of external factors in language change (by Milroy, James); 16. Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English (by Kerswill, Paul); 17. Social dimensions of syntactic variation: The case of when clauses (by Cheshire, Jenny); 18. Language variation in Greece (by Sifianou, Maria); 19. A Norwegian adult language game, anti-language or secret code: The Smoi of Mandal (by Jahr, Ernst Hakon); 20. Children and linguistic normativity (by Millar, Sharon); 21. The virtue of the vernacular: On intervention in linguistic affairs (by Widdowson, Henry G.); 22. The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties (by Faarlund, Jan Terje); 23. Peter Trudgill's publications; 24. Index
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ISBN
9789027218544
Publisert
2003-08-29
Utgiver
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Vekt
620 gr
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245 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
354