Theories and Methods
Contributors: Schmidt, Jürgen Erich
Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science -- v. 30/1; Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 909
ISBN-13: 9783110220278
Subjects: Dialectology; Language and languages; Variation; Linguistic geography
Description: The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the "deepest" dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the new mobility of speakers in recently industrialized and postindustrial societies and the efflorescence of communication technologies cannot be ignored. This has given rise to a reconsideration of the relationship between geographical place and cultur.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Frontmatter; Contents; I. Introduction: Language and space; II. Linguistic approaches to space; III. Structure and dynamics of a language space; IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces; V. Data collection and corpus-building; VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results; VII. Exemplary studies; VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems; Backmatter.