The written questionnaire in social dialectology : history, theory, practice /
This book is the first monograph-length account on written questionnaires in more than 60 years. It reconnects - for the newcomer and the more seasoned empirical linguist alike - the older questionnaire tradition, last given serious treatment in the 1950s.
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
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2016
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| Series: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
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Table of Contents:
- The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; List of common abbreviations; List of tables; List of figures; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Author's preface; 1. Written Questionnaires in€the€wider€linguistic context; 1.1 Three basic types of language data and WQs; 1.2 Data in traditional dialect geography; 1.2.1 The Fieldworker Interview (FI) method; 1.2.2 Wenker's Written Questionnaire (WWQ) method; 1.3 Today's Written Questionnaire (WQ) methods; 1.4 The organization of this Book.
- Part I. History & theory2. A history of written questionnaires in€social dialectology; 2.1 German-language pioneers; 2.2 From Wenker's Deutscher Sprachatlas to Mitzka's Wortatlas; Advantages; 2.3 Dutch and Flemish WQs; 2.4 Early English language WQs in the US; 2.4.1 A new beginning: Alva L. Davis' (1948) WQ Survey; 2.4.2 Cassidy's and Allen's WQ studies; 2.5 Scotland and The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland; 2.6 WQs in Canada: A special case; 2.6.1 Canadian beginnings; 2.6.2 Survey of Canadian English (1972); 2.6.3 Other Canadian WQs; 2.6.4 Dialect Topography of Canada (1991-2004).
- 2.6.5 North American Regional Vocabulary Survey2.7 Other, more recent applications; 2.8 Chapter conclusion ; 3. A comparison of data collection methodologies; 3.1 Corpus linguistics and WQs: A methodological comparison; 3.1.1 Limited linguistic contexts: Problem #1; 3.1.2 Low-frequency items: Problem #2; 3.1.3 (Positive) Evidence and negative evidence: Problem #3; 3.1.4 Documentation of social backgrounds: Problem #4; 3.1.5 Corpora and WQs: A comparison; Linguistic examples: Attested and reported; 3.2 Comparison of elicitation techniques: WQ and FI.
- 3.2.1 The Linguistic Atlas of the Upper Midwest (1947-1953 1973-6); 3.2.2 Allen's WQ and FI data: Chambers' selection; 3.2.3 Selecting the best test; Testing the data for equivalence; Allen's original assessment; 3.3 Comparison of elicitation techniques: Sociolinguistic interview and WQ; 3.3.1 The Observer's Paradox and WQs; 3.3.2 McDavid's test; 3.3.3 WQs and sociolinguistic interviews in Vancouver, Canada; Low-back vowels; Yod-dropping; 3.4 Chapter conclusion; 4. Types of traditional WQ variables; 4.1 Lexis (vocabulary); 4.1.1 A Canadianism is dying out: chesterfield.
- The rise and fall of chesterfield4.1.2 A Canadianism is staying put: The case of tap; 4.1.3 A Canadianism is entering the scene: take up #9; Interpreting the data on take up #9; Tracing take up #9 in the Canadian Oxford; 4.2 Morphology; Snuck as a global form?; 4.3 Syntax and usage; 4.3.1 Different from/than/to?; 4.3.2 Between you and me or I?; The source of the confusion; 4.3.3 Telling time: 11:40 or twenty-to-twelve?; 4.4 Pronunciation: Phonemic variables; 4.4.1 Yod-dropping; Yod-retention in avenue: An urban vs. rural split?; 4.4.2 Variation in lexical item vase; 4.5 Outlook.
