ABSTRACT
This chapter examines different kinds of visual presentation and discusses their respective merits. It distinguishes between those atlases that present the basic material in map form and those atlases that map material that is presented in a different form. The Linguistic Atlas of New England and Manuel Alvar Lopez's Atlas linguistico y etnografico de Andalucia in which whole words are written at approximately the location of the speaker whose response was recorded by the fieldworker. The purpose of linguistic maps is presumably to present information of the kind shown in maps which display the average rainfall or distribution of population in a particular area. The chapter illustrates the other ways in which the survey materials of SED and LSS could be imaginatively and creatively used to present a clearer picture of linguistic variation in Great Britain. SED and LSS materials provide evidence only of geographical distribution with little differentiation among the respondents.
