The Handbook of Dialectology |
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| Editor:
| Boberg, Charles
Nerbonne, John
Watt, Dominic |
| Series title: | Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-118-82758-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2018 |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Wiley-Blackwell |
| Book Format: | Digital download |
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Book Description:
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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area.
- The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics
- Provides a practical guide...
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The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and offers a critical discussion of the past, present and future development of the area.
- The volume is based on state-of-the-art research in dialectology around the world, providing the most current work available with an unusually broad scope of topics
- Provides a practical guide to the many methodological and statistical issues surrounding the collection and analysis of dialect data
- Offers summaries of dialect variation in the world's most widely spoken and commonly studied languages, including several non-European languages that have traditionally received less attention in general discussions of dialectology
- Reviews the intellectual development of the field, including its main theoretical schools of thought and research traditions, both academic and applied
- The editors are well known and highly respected, with a deep knowledge of this vast field of inquiry