ABSTRACT
The codification of regional linguistic variants from a synchronic and/or diachronic perspective. There are three principal types of dialect dictionaries: (a) comprehensive, multiregional dialect dictionaries that comprise the vocabulary of several regional dialectal variants; (b) regional dictionaries that comprise the complete dialect of a specific area (town, village, region, and so on); (c) those limited to a specific city or local dialect ( idioticon). ( British English, English)
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dialectology
Subdiscipline of dialectology (sometimes equated with it) concerned with the investigation of the geographic distribution of linguistic phenomena. In dialect geography, phonetic, phonological, morphological, and lexical approaches are primarily employed. The comprehensive collection of materials in written records (the mailing of questionnaires), oral data recorded phonetically, on the spot, by the interviewer in a ‘question book,’ and the collection of freely spoken texts form the basis of linguistic geographic analysis. The recorded data are then presented in the form of linguistic maps ( dialect mapping, linguistic atlas) which facilitate the interpretation of the specific geographic distribution and the structure of individual features from a historical, cultural, social (extralinguistic), and language-internal (intralinguistic) point of view.
