Format:
889 S.
Edition:
De Gruyter reference global Online-Ausg
ISBN:
9783110180022
Series Statement:
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 30,1
Content:
Biographical note: Peter Auer, University of Freiburg, Germany; Jürgen Erich Schmidt, University of Marburg, Germany.
Content:
Review text: "In sum, this volume offers a comprehensive assessment of language and space research. It casts a wide net in tracing the historical development ofscholarship in this area and in portraying the current state of the art. As a result, a picture emerges of an exciting body of work that explores an expanding range of questions relevant to linguists of various stripes."Matthew J. Gordon in: Linguist List 22.2882
Content:
Main description: The dimensions of time and space fundamentally cause and shape the variability of all human language. To reduce investigation of this insight to manageable proportions, researchers have traditionally concentrated on the 0deepest0 dialects. But it is increasingly apparent that, although most people still speak with a distinct regional coloring, the new mobility of speakers in recently industrialized and postindustrial societies and the efflorescence of communication technologies cannot be ignored. This has given rise to a reconsideration of the relationship between geographical place and cultural space, and the fundamental link between language and a spatially bounded territory. Language and Space: An International Handbook of Linguistic Variation seeks to take full account of these developments in a comprehensive, theoretically rich way. The introductory volume examines the concept of space and linguistic approaches to it, the structure and dynamics of language spaces, and relevant research methods. A second volume offers the first thorough exploration of the interplay between linguistic investigation and cartography, and subsequent volumes uniformly document the state of research into the spatial dimension of particular language groupings. Key features: comprehensive coverage of the field in terms of theory and methods the unique volume stands alone, since it neither is a handbook of dialectology or of areal linguistics, nor a handbook on language variation alone gathers together a great number of distinguished scholars and experts in the field
Note:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110220278
Language:
German
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Sprachvariante
;
Sprachgeografie
;
Dialektologie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1515/9783110220278
Author information:
Auer, Peter 1954-
