Social Dialectology: In Honour of Peter TrudgillPeter Trudgill, David Britain, Jenny Cheshire 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 The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the world's most prolific and well-respected social dialectologists as well as by some younger, dynamic researchers.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. |
Contents
Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features | 23 |
Systemic accommodation | 39 |
The focusing of kum in Amman | 59 |
An East Anglian in the South Atlantic? Interpreting | 81 |
Sociolinguistics of immigration | 97 |
A new look at | 115 |
The case | 131 |
Fitting | 155 |
Exploring the importance of the outlier in sociolinguistic dialectology | 191 |
When is a sound change? On the role of external factors | 209 |
Dialect levelling and geographical diffusion in British English | 223 |
The case of when clauses | 245 |
Language variation in Greece | 263 |
Children and linguistic normativity | 287 |
The Nynorsk standard language and Norwegian dialect varieties | 311 |
Peter Trudgills publications | 327 |
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3rd person singular accent African American Amman analysis anti-language Blackwell Bokmål Britain British English Cambridge University Press century Cheshire consonant dialect contact dialect levelling dialectology diffusion diphthong distinction East Anglian ethnic example factors Fenland Fens Figure forms forthcoming fronting gender geographical Greek groups Harkers Island historical hoagie Hungarian Hungary ideology immigrants innovations Katharevousa Kerswill Labov language change language contact Language Variation lexical linguistic change London lone when clauses Mandal Milroy mobility monophthongization Murcia NCCS Newcastle norms northern Northern Cities Shift Norwegian Nynorsk Ocracoke Oxford pattern person singular zero Peter Trudgill phonetic phonological Pizza plural pronunciation region Romania Schilling-Estes shows Smoi words social network sociolinguistic sound change Southern Shift speakers speech community standard structure suffix Swiss German th)-fronting tion Tristan da Cunha Trudgill's urban variability Variation and Change varieties verb vernacular vowel system Wolfram Zealand English