Needed Research in American Dialects

by Dennis R. Preston

Needed Research in American Dialects brings together some of the most highly recognized specialists in the fields of sociolinguistics and dialectology to offer a rare survey of the field's last twenty years and an investigation into the future study of language variation and change in North America. The volume recognizes the distinct merging of interests among dialectologists, sociolinguists, and students of language with theories of language generally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822365944
• ISBN13: 9780822365945
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"