American dialect research
By: edited by Dennis R. Preston ; with the assistance of the members of the committee, John G. Fought ... [et al.] and the distinguished honorary members of the committee, Dwight Bolinger and Charles F. Hockett.
Contributors: Preston, Dennis Richard.; Fought, John G.
Series: Centennial series of the American Dialect Society
Publisher: J. Benjamins; John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
Subjects: English language -- Dialects -- United States.; Americanisms.
Description: "Containing all new material and published for the American Dialect Society's centennial celebration (1889-1989), this volume brings together in one place, as no previously published work has, current approaches to the general problems of language distribution and variation. The several chapters offer accounts of how questions are formulated and how data are collected, stored, and interpreted in the various research traditions of dialectology and sociolinguistics, particularly as they have been carried out by researchers associated with the American Dialect Society. More specifically, this book takes trips to the scholar's laboratory. How is this work done? What pitfalls in fieldwork, processing, and interpretation have been encountered and how have they been overcome? What techniques have been used to get at the facts and underlying explanations of language variety? What does recent work suggest about the most rewarding areas and methods for future investigation?"--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.