Language and Space...
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Volume 1
Theories and Methods
Ed. by Auer, Peter / Schmidt, Jürgen Erich
Series: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 30/1
Aims and Scope
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 cultural space, and the fundamental link between language and a spatially bounded territory.
Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic
Variation seeks to take full account of these developments in a comprehensive, theoretically rich way. The introductory
volume examines the concept of space and linguistic approaches to it, the structure and dynamics of language spaces, and relevant
research methods. A second volume offers the first thorough exploration of the interplay between linguistic investigation
and cartography, and subsequent volumes uniformly document the state of research into the spatial dimension of particular
language groupings.
Key features:
- comprehensive coverage of the field in terms of theory and methods
- the unique volume stands alone, since it neither is a handbook of dialectology or of areal linguistics, nor a handbook on language variation alone
- gathers together a great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field
- xvi, 889 pages
- DE GRUYTER MOUTON
- Language:
- English
- Type of Publication:
- Edition
- Keywords:
- Dialectology; Sociolinguistics; Language Change
- Subjects
- Linguistics, Communications > Applied Linguistics > Sociolinguistics
- Linguistics, Communications > Applied Linguistics > Dialectology
- Linguistics, Communications > Historical Linguistics > Language Change
- Linguistics, Communications > Editions > HSK
MARC record
MARC record for eBook"In sum, this volume offers a
comprehensive assessment of language and space research. It casts a wide net in tracing the historical development of
scholarship
in this area and in portraying the current state of the art. As a result, a picture emerges of an exciting body of work that
explores an expanding range of questions relevant to linguists of various stripes."
Matthew J. Gordon in: Linguist
List 22.2882