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Volume 1
Theories and Methods (2010)
Ed. by Auer, Peter / Schmidt, Jürgen Erich
Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 30/1
Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- I. Introduction: Language and space
- II. Linguistic approaches to space
- 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition
- 6. Language and space: Traditional dialect geography
- 7. Language and Space: The kulturmorphologische Ansatz in dialectology and the German language space ideology, 1920–1960
- 8. Language and space: Structuralist and generative approaches
- 9. Language and space: The variationist approach
- 10. Who’s there? Language and space in social anthropology and interactional sociolinguistics
- 11. Language, space and the folk
- 12. Language and space: The linguistic dynamics approach
- 5. Language and space: The neogrammarian tradition
- III. Structure and dynamics of a language space
- 13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space
- 14. Horizontal convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space
- 15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space
- 16. Divergence of linguistic varieties in a language space
- 17. Emergence of varieties through restructuring and reevaluation
- 18. Urban and rural language
- 19. Discontinuous language spaces (Sprachinseln)
- 20. Linguistic stability in a language space
- 21. Old minorities within a language space
- 13. Identifing dimensions of linguistic variation in a language space
- IV. Structure and dynamics across language spaces
- 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale
- 23. Areal language typology
- 24. The consequences of migration and colonialism I: Pidgins and creoles
- 25. The consequences of migration and colonialism II: Overseas varieties
- 26. The consequences of migration and colonialism III: New minorities
- 27. Non-convergence despite language contact
- 22. Contact-induced grammatical change: A cautionary tale
- V. Data collection and corpus-building
- VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results
- VII. Exemplary studies
- 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community
of practice
- 36. A study on areal diffusion
- 37. The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rhine (MRhSA): A study on the emergence and spread of regional dialects
- 38. Challenging the homogeneity assumption in language variation analysis: Findings from a study of multilingual urban spaces
- 39. Variety complexes in contact: A study on Uruguayan and Brazilian Fronterizo
- 40. Language as a process: A study on transnational spaces
- 41. The study of language and space in media discourse
- 35. Untying the language-body-place connection: A study on linguistic variation and social style in a Copenhagen community
of practice
- VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems
- Backmatter
15. Vertical convergence of linguistic varieties in a language space
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Citation Information
Language and Space
An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation
Edited by Auer, Peter / Schmidt, Jürgen Erich
Walter de Gruyter
2010
Pages: 259-274
eBook ISBN: 9783110220278
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