Social dialectology in honour of Peter Trudgill (John Benjamins Pub., 2003)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Social Dialectology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC page; Photo's Peter Trudgill; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Pursuing the cascade model; Complementary approaches to the diffusion of standard features in a local community; Systemic accommodation; New dialect formation; Variation and sound change in New Zealand English; An East Anglian in the South Atlantic?; Sociolinguistics of immigration; Why fuude is not f̀ood' and tschëgge is not c̀heck'; Parallel development and alternative restructuring; Social and linguistic dimensions of phonological change
The time-honoured study of dialects took a new turn some forty years ago, giving centre stage to social factors and the quantitative analysis of language variation and change. It has become a discipline that no scholar of language can afford to ignore. This collection identifies the main theoretical and methodological issues currently preoccupying researchers in social dialectology, drawing not only on variation in English in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Europe and elsewhere but also in Arabic, Greek, Norwegian and Spanish dialects. The volume brings together previously unpublished work by the w