The article surveys significant German contributions to the fields of dialect geography, creole studies, variationist sociolinguistics, and varieties of World English. It discusses fundamental approaches and issues (e.g. the "Dynamic Model", a trend towards investigating diachronic variation, or the application of increasingly sophisticated quantification techniques) and lists and assesses many individual studies and contributions.
CLIL theme: 3147 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Linguistique, Sciences du langage
ISBN:978-2-406-08215-6
EAN:9782406082156
ISSN: 2262-0346
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-08215-6.p.0217
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 06-29-2018
Periodicity: Biannual
Language: English
Keyword: Creole studies, dialectology, variationist sociolinguistics, World Englishes