Theories and Methods (2010)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• I. Introduction: Language and space
  • 1. Language and geographical space
  • 2. Language and social spaces
  • 3. Language and political spaces
  • 4. Language and transnational spaces
• 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
• 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
• 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
• V. Data collection and corpus-building
  • 28. Investigating language in space: Methods and empirical standards
  • 29. Investigating language in space: Questionnaire and interview
  • 30. Investigating language in space: Experimental techniques
• VI. Data analysis and the presentation of results
  • 31. Measuring dialect differences
  • 32. Linguistic atlases - traditional and modern
  • 33. Dialect dictionaries - traditional and modern
  • 34. Community-based investigations: From traditional dialect grammar to sociolinguistic studies
• 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
• VIII. Structural domains: Methodological problems
  • 42. Areal variation in segmental phonetics and phonology
  • 43. Areal variation in prosody
  • 44. Areal variation in morphology
  • 45. Lexical variation in space
  • 46. Areal variation in syntax
  • 47. Areal variation and discourse
• Backmatter