Language and space: theories and methods
Subtitle: an international handbook of linguistic variation
By: edited by Peter Auer, Jürgen Erich Schmidt.
Contributors: Auer, Peter, 1954-; Schmidt, Jürgen Erich, 1954-
Series: Handbooks of linguistics and communication science -- 30.1
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110180022
Subjects: Language and languages -- Variation; Linguistic geography; Dialectology
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the language and space series; title: Introduction to this volume; title: I. Introduction: language and space: 1. Language and geographical space / Barbara Johnstone; title: 2. Language and social spaces / Brit Mæhlum; title: 3. Language and political spaces / Susan Gal; title: 4. Language and transnational spaces / Marco Jacquemet; title: II. Linguistic approaches to space: 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition / Robert W. Murray; title: 6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography / Renate Schrambke; title: 7. Language and space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language and space ideology, 1920-1960 / Clemens Knobloch; title: 8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches / Sjef Barbiers; title: 9. Language and space: The variationist approach / David Britain; title: 10. Who's there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics / Penelope Eckert; title: 11. Language, space and the folk / Dennis R. Preston; title: 12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach / Jürgen Erich Schmidt; title: III. Structure and dynamics of a language space: 13. Identifying dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space / Gaetano Berruto; title: 14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space / Beat Siebenhaar; title: 15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space / Unn Røyneland; title: 16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space / Rüdiger Harnisch; title: 17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation / Alexandra N. Lenz; title: 18. Urban and rural language / Reinhild Vandekerckhove; title: 19. Discontinous language spaces (Sprachinseln) / Claudia Maria Riehl; title: 20. Linguistic stability in a language space / Johan Taeldeman; title: 21. Old minorities within a language space / Claus D. Pusch; title: IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces: 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale / Shana Poplack and Stephen Levey; title: 23. Areal language typology / Walter Bisang; title: 24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles / Christian Mair; title: 25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties / Daniel Schreier; title: 26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities / Thomas Krefeld; title: 27. Non-convergence despite language contact / Göz Kaufmann; title: V. Data collection and corpus-building: 28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards / Werner König; title: 29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview / Guido Seiler; title: 30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques / Tore Kristiansen; title: VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results: 31. Measuring dialect differences / John Nerbonne and Wilbert Heeringa; title: 32. Linguistic atlases traditional and modern / Alfred Lameli; title: 33. Dialect dictionaries traditional and modern / Claudine Moulin; title: 34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies / Juan Andrés Villena-Ponsoda; title: VII. Exemplary studies: 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community of practice / Pia Quist; title: 36. A study on areal diffusion / Walter Haas; title: 37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects / Joachim Herrgen; title: 38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces / Sally Boyd and Kari Fraurud; title: 39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo / Harald Thun; title: 40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces / Monica Heller; title: 41. The study of language and space in media discourse / Jannis Androutsopoulos; title: VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems: 42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology / Peter Gilles and Beat Siebenhaar; title: 43. Areal variation in prosody / Peter Gilles and Beat Siebenhaar; title: 44. Areal variation in morphology / Stefan Rabanus; title: 45. Lexical variation in space / Dirk Geeraerts; title: 46. Areal variation in syntax / Bernd Kortmann; title: 47. Areal variation and discourse / Norbert Dittmar; title: Index.