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Dialectology is a sub-field of linguistics. It studies variations in language based primarily on geographic distribution (as opposed to variations based on social factors, which are studied in sociolinguistics, or variations based on time, which are studied in historical linguistics and the features associated with it). Dialectology treats such topics as divergence of 2 local dialects from a common ancestor and synchronic variation. William Labov is one of the most prominent researchers in this field.
Dialectologists are ultimately concerned with grammatical and syntactical features which correspond to regional areas.
History
Dialect studies began in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The idea of dialect studies began in 1876, by George Wenker, who sent postal questionnaires out over Northern Germany. These postal questionnaires contained a list of sentences written in Standard German. These sentences were then transcribed into the local dialect, reflecting dialectal differences. Many studies proceeded from this, and over the next century dialect studies were carried out all over the world. Traditional studies in Dialectology were generally aimed at producing dialect maps, whereby imaginary lines were drawn over a map to indicate different dialect areas. The move away from traditional methods of language study however caused linguists to become more concerned with social factors. Dialectologists therefore began to study social, as well as regional variation. The Linguistic Atlas of the United States (1930s) was amongst the first dialect studies to take social factors into account. This shift in interest consequently saw the birth of Sociolinguistics, which is a mixture of Dialectology and Social Sciences.
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RT: @kapiya_7: @gigipan Dialectology? That's english?! :S hahahaha no u havia vist... you bird XDDD
gigipan (Gigliola Lucero) Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:58:09 -0000
RT: @kapiya_7: @gigipan Dialectology? That's english?! :S hahahaha no u havia vist... you bird XDDD
Kinda stressed... Tomorrow dialectology exam. I think I'm gonna die a little bit XD...
gigipan (Gigliola Lucero) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:35:29 -0000
Kinda stressed... Tomorrow dialectology exam. I think I'm gonna die a little bit XD...
Semantics, dialectology, inflectional affix...my life in linguistic terms...
StephHorowitz (Stephanie Horowitz) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:12:32 -0000
Semantics, dialectology, inflectional affix...my life in linguistic terms...
Bingung!chief editor Journal of Social Sciences UNAIR nawarin thesis'ku ttg dialectology diterjemahin ke journal mreka..bingung jwbny!!
liviandhi (liviandhi devris b) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:46:17 -0000
Bingung!chief editor Journal of Social Sciences UNAIR nawarin thesis'ku ttg dialectology diterjemahin ke journal mreka..bingung jwbny!!
bueno, marcho a la biblio,que por fin he encontrado entre el tocho de folios de la asignatura la bibliografia de middle english dialectology
hazukita (hazukita) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:25:51 -0000
bueno, marcho a la biblio,que por fin he encontrado entre el tocho de folios de la asignatura la bibliografia de middle english dialectology
Dialectology - Includes a wealth of general information on dialectology, as well as papers, presentations, links, and information on Dutch dialects.
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International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics - Committee, membership, and publication information.
Meta Description: [ International promotion of dialectology and geolinguistics; support of international enterprises; study of minority languages and dialects; international journal; congresses ]
Sociolinguistics - Informational page on sociolinguistics with a very large section on dialects.
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