Sociolinguistics (Volume 6 of Western Linguistics Series)

Author: J.K. Chambers
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Publication Date: 2002-01-18
Features: This book was published in 1980. Due to its first successful combination of urban dialect (sociolinguistics), dialect geography, and spatial variation under a continuous and unified theoretical principle, it achieved groundbreaking success in Western linguistics. This is the second edition, in which the author has supplemented the new achievements in the field of dialect research over the past 20 years and provided dedicated chapters introducing "quantitative analysis" in dialectology and the graphical representation of dialect variants. The greatest advantage of this book is its successful integration of theoretical methods, theoretical models, and new findings in this research field within a brief volume.